American vaudeville as ritual / / Albert F. McLean, Jr

• Autore: McLean Albert F.
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 1965; ©1965
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.7
• Soggetto topico: Vaudeville - United States; Popular culture - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 223-238)
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; One: The Symbolism of Vaudeville; Two: Evolution of a Ritual; Three: The New Folk and Their Heroes; Four: From Sin to Sociology; Five: The Mechanics of Fantasy; Six: The New Humor; Seven: A Modern Totemism and Sorcery; Eight: The Playlets; Nine: The Palaces; Ten: The Patterns of Ritual Meaning; Notes; A Note on the Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study.Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and other
• Titolo autorizzato: American vaudeville as ritual
• ISBN: 0-8131-8479-7; 0-8131-5074-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460296303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II