04018nam 2200745 a 450 991079041260332120200520144314.00-7735-8910-40-7735-8909-010.1515/9780773589094(CKB)2550000001114245(EBL)3332620(SSID)ssj0001107182(PQKBManifestationID)11624743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107182(PQKBWorkID)11082020(PQKB)11131968(CEL)446159(OCoLC)1037912370(OCoLC)851897279(OCoLC)899185079(OCoLC)923238596(OCoLC)961668318(OCoLC)962585154(OCoLC)966214977(OCoLC)973672243(OCoLC)988468328(OCoLC)992038488(OCoLC)1038370336(OCoLC)1039003738(OCoLC)1043861684(OCoLC)1053534636(CaBNVSL)slc00233100(OCoLC)851897279(Au-PeEL)EBL3332620(CaPaEBR)ebr10748466(CaONFJC)MIL514100(OCoLC)923238596(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/1gpfcr(MiAaPQ)EBC3332620(DE-B1597)657702(DE-B1597)9780773589094(EXLCZ)99255000000111424520130830d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShadow woman[electronic resource] the extraordinary career of Pauline Benton /Grant Hayter-MenziesMontreal McGill-Queen's University Press20131 online resource (261 p.)0-7735-4201-9 1-299-82849-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cultural Geographies -- Shadow People -- Willow-Patterned Cathay -- The Red Gate Shadow Players -- Oriental Curiosities -- Shadows Pass -- World War -- Survival -- Cultural Revolution -- Shadow Woman -- Monkey King -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The White Snake.Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.Women puppeteersUnited StatesBiographyWomen performance artistsUnited StatesBiographyShadow showsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPuppet theaterUnited StatesHistory20th centuryShadow puppetsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPerformance artUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen puppeteersWomen performance artistsShadow showsHistoryPuppet theaterHistoryShadow puppetsHistoryPerformance artHistory791.5/3092Hayter-Menzies Grant1964-714134MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790412603321Shadow woman3680196UNINA