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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.
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'In American Puppet Modernism, Bell presents a wide-ranging history of puppets and performing objects within a US socio-political context, contributing new insight into, and detailed analysis of, their roles in US society and theatre history. He simultaneously investigates and re-thinks the role of material objects on stage and in popular culture.' - Alissa Mello, Platform
About the author
John Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Puppet Modernism
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Material World in Performance
Authors: John Bell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230613768
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7981-0Published: 19 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28670-3Published: 27 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61376-8Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: History of the Americas, Performing Arts, North American Literature, Literary History