Women and comedy in solo performance : Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin, and Roseanne / / Suzanne Lavin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451014803321
• Autore: Lavin Suzanne <1946, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-93445-2; 1-280-25443-2; 9786610254439; 0-203-64346-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (155 p.)
• Collana: Studies in American popular history and culture
• Disciplina: 792.7/082/0973
• Soggetti: Stand-up comedy - United States; Women comedians - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Half-title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Overview; 2. Phyllis Diller; 3. Lily Tomlin; 4. Roseanne; 5. Women's Comedy on the Stage; 6. Feminist Humor and Change; 7. Margaret Cho and Ellen DeGeneres; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines the dramatic changes in American women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995. The study focuses on the stand-up of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne, and on the character comedy of Lily Tomlin.

Work and welfare [[electronic resource] /] / Robert M. Solow ; [comments by] Gertrude Himmelfarb ... [et al.] ; edited by Amy Gutmann

• Record Nr.: UNISA996199280503316
• Autore: Solow Robert M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1998
• ISBN: 1-282-45823-X; 9786612458231; 1-4008-2264-5; 1-4008-0755-7
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (121 p.)
• Collana: The University Center for Human Values series
• Classificazione: QV 000
• Altri autori (Persone): HimmelfarbGertrude; GutmannAmy
• Disciplina: 362.5/0973
• Soggetti: Public welfare - United States; Welfare recipients - Employment - United States; Poor - Employment - United States; Unskilled labor - United States; Wages - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Gutmann, Amy -- Preface to the Lectures -- Lecture I: Guess Who Likes Workfare / Solow, Robert M. -- Lecture II: Guess Who Pays for Workfare / Solow, Robert M. -- Comment / Loury, Glenn C. -- Comment / Lewis, Anthony -- Comment / Roemer, John E. -- Comment / Himmelfarb, Gertrude -- Response to Comments / Solow, Robert M. -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move ; recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market would not easily make room for a huge influx of unskilled, inexperienced workers. Second, the normal market adjustment to that influx would drive down earnings for those already in low-wage jobs. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work, but not to want them to live at a miserable standard or to benefit at the expense of the working poor, especially since children are often the first to suffer. Instead, he writes, we should create new demand for unskilled labor through public-service employment and incentives to the private sector--in effect, fair "workfare." Solow presents widely ignored evidence that recipients themselves would welcome the chance to work. But he also points out that practical, morally defensible workfare would be extremely expensive--a problem that politicians who support the idea blithely fail to admit. Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism. The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. It includes reactions from the distinguished scholars Gertrude Himmelfarb, Anthony Lewis, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer, who expand on and take issue with Solow's arguments. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course.

Greek theatre in the fourth century B.C. / / edited by Eric Csapo [and three others] ; contributors, Zachary Biles [and eighteen others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828405303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-037368-8; 3-11-033755-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (590 p.)
• Classificazione: AP 64940
• Disciplina: 792.0938
• Soggetti: Theater - Greece - History - To 500; Theater - Greece - Athens - History - To 500; Theater - Greece - History; Greek drama - History and criticism; Greece Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction: Old and New Perspectives on Fourth-Century Theatre -- Section A: Theatre Sites -- The Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens: New Data and Observations on its 'Lycurgan' Phase / Papastamati-von Moock, Christina -- The Archaeology of the 'Rural' Dionysia in Attica / Goette, Hans Rupprecht -- The Evolution of Theatre Architecture Outside Athens in the Fourth Century / Moretti, Jean-Charles -- Section B: Tragedy and Comedy -- How Pots and Papyri Might Prompt a Re-Evaluation of Fourth-Century Tragedy / Taplin, Oliver -- Performing Classics: The Tragic Canon in the Fourth Century and Beyond / Nervegna, Sebastiana -- Literary Evidence for New Tragic Production: The View from the Fourth Century / Hanink, Johanna -- The Evolution of Comedy in the Fourth Century / Hartwig, Andrew -- Section C: Performance outside Athens -- Philippus in acie tutior quam in theatro fuit ... (Curtius 9, 6, 25): The Macedonian Kings and Greek Theatre / Moloney, Eoghan -- Theatre, Religion, and Politics at Alexander's ; Travelling Royal Court / Guen, Brigitte Le -- Cooking Up Rhesus: Literary Imitation and Its Consumers / Liapis, Vayos -- Rethinking Choregic Iconography in Apulia / Biles, Zachary / Thorn, Jed -- Greek Theatre in Non-Greek Apulia / Robinson, Edward G. D. -- Regional Theatre in the Fourth Century. The Evidence of Comic Figurines of Boeotia, Corinth and Cyprus / Green, J. Richard -- Theatre in the Fourth-Century Black Sea Region / Braund, David / Hall, Edith -- Section D: Finance and Records in Athens -- The Finance and Organisation of the Athenian Theatre in the Time of Eubulus and Lycurgus / Csapo, Eric / Wilson, Peter -- Inscribed Public Records of the Dramatic Contests at Athens: IG II2 2318-2323a and IG II2 2325 / Millis, Benjamin W. -- Plates -- Illustration Credit -- Bibliography -- Indices -- List of Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic, historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major 'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama, dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance and memorialisation.

Historic preservation : caring for our expanding legacy / / by Michael A. Tomlan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484288803321
• Autore: Tomlan Michael A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-04975-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXXVII, 383 p. 153 illus., 54 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 363.690973
• Soggetti: Archaeology; Cultural property; Regional planning; City planning; Management; Cultural Heritage; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Cultural Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Our changing Need to Preserve -- Chapter 2: The Struggle Continues -- Chapter 3: The Legal Framework -- Chapter 4: Changing Our Economic Outlook -- Chapter 5: Meeting the Financial Challenges -- Chapter 6: Documentation, Context, and Design -- Chapter 7: Advocacy and Ethics -- Chapter 8: Placing Greater Faith in Religion -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed ; important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention. The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad intellectual basis and fundamental legal framework is provided. The economic shifts associated with major demographic changes are explored, in tandem with responses of the preservation community. A chapter is dedicated to the financial challenges and sources of revenue available in typical preservation projects, and another chapter focuses on the manner in which seeing, recording, and interpreting information provides the context for an appropriate vision for the future. In this regard, it is made clear that not all “green” design alternatives are preservation-sensitive. The advocacy battles during the last few decades provide a number of short stories of the ethical battles regarding below-ground and above ground historic resources, and the eighth chapter attempts to explain why religion has been long held at arm’s length in publicly-supported preservation efforts, when in fact, it holds more potential to regenerate existing sites than any governmental program. .