Show boat : performing race in an American musical / by Decker, Todd R.

Subjects: “…Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat.…”
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Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / by Wood, Bethany, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: adaptation studies and gender -- Story properties, women writers, and the inter-industrial complex of early twentieth-century adaptation -- The age of innocence, 1920: publication and romantic authorship -- The age of innocence, 1920/1924: screen adaptation and an author's reputation -- The age of innocence, 1926/1928: stage adaptation and multi-vocal authorship -- Show boat, 1926/1928: genre and gender in print and on screen -- Show boat, 1926/1927: musical genre and the Ziegfeld girl -- Show boat, 1927/1929: adapting for sound film -- Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1926: fidelity and consumerist femininity in print and on stage -- Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1928: faithfully (re)producing farce on screen -- Conclusion: modern resonances.…”
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Challenging racism in the arts : case studies of controversy and conflict / by Tator, Carol

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical perspectives -- Into the heart of Africa -- The Barnes collection -- The writing thru race conference -- The black/dance music station -- Miss Saigon -- Show Boat -- Revisiting central themes and tensions -- Concluding reflections.…”
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The holiday in his eye : Stanley Cavell's vision of film and philosophy / by Rothman, William

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Cavell Reading Cavell -- 2 Introduction to Reading Cavell's "The World Viewed" (with Marian Keane) -- 3 Sights and Sounds (with Marian Keane) -- 4 The Acknowledgment of Silence (with Marian Keane) -- 5 Cavell's Philosophy and What Film Studies Calls "Theory" -- Statement Read at Plenary Session of the 1991 Society for Cinema Studies Annual Meeting -- 6 Response to Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye -- 7 Pursuits of Happiness: Cavell in Transition -- 8 In Defense of Pursuits of Happiness -- 9 Viewing the World in Black and White -- Now, Voyager -- Stella Dallas -- Blonde Venus -- Show Boat -- Imitation of Life -- 10 Cavell's Creation -- Who Is Stanley Cavell? …”
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Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Trying on The Yellow Jacket: performing Chinese exclusion and assimilation (1912-28) / Ju Yon Kim -- Jazz, jews, and modernism on Broadway: from Lady, Be Good! to Show Boat (1924-27) / Stuart J. Hecht -- Reconfiguring race and citizenship: the Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40) / Eric Mayer-García -- A cosmogony for the martinalized: Lynn Riggs, mythmaking, and multiracial-homosexual apologetics (1931-32) / W. …”
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The book of Broadway : the 150 definitive plays and musicals / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…-- On the town -- Our town -- Pal Joey -- The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade -- Peter pan (play) -- The phantom of the opera -- The Philadelphia story -- Picnic -- Pippin -- The pirates of Penzance -- The playboy of the western world -- Porgy and Bess -- Private lives -- The producers -- Promises, promises -- Pygmalion -- Ragtime -- A raisin in the sun -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- 1776 -- She loves me -- Show boat -- The show-off -- Shuffle along -- Six degrees of separation -- The skin of our teeth -- Sleuth -- The sound of music -- South Pacific -- Spring awakening -- A streetcar named desire -- The student prince in Heidelberg -- Sweeney Todd -- The time of your life -- Tobacco road -- Torch song triology -- A trip to Chinatown -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Very good Eddie -- Waiting for Godot -- Waiting for Lefty -- Watch your step -- West Side story -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? …”
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The Book of Broadway / by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Pal joeythe persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade; peter pan (play); peter pan (musical); the phantom of the opera; the philadelphia story; picnic; pippin; the pirates of penzance; the playboy of the western world; porgy and bess; private lives; the producers; promises, promises; pygmalion; ragtime; a raisin in the sun; rent; rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead; 1776; she loves me; show boat; the show-off; shuffle along; six degrees of separation; the skin of our teeth; sleuth.…”
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