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American theater in the culture of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962 / / Bruce McConachie



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Autore: McConachie Bruce A Visualizza persona
Titolo: American theater in the culture of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962 / / Bruce McConachie Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
Disciplina: 792/.0973
792/.0973/0945
Soggetto topico: Theater - United States - History - 20th century
American drama - 20th century - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-333) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment-what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two-as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure.McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying
Titolo autorizzato: American theater in the culture of the Cold War  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-447-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777591003321
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Serie: Studies in theatre history and culture.