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

Subjects: “…Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat.…”
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Enchanted evenings : the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : setting the stage -- Act I : Before Rodgers and Hammerstein. Show boat : in the beginning ; Anything goes : songs ten, book three ; Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera ; On your toes and Pal Joey : dance gets into the act and "sweet water from a foul well" ; The cradle will rock : a labor musical for art's sake ; Lady in the dark and One touch of Venus : the Broadway stranger and his American dreams ; Stage versus screen (1) : before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Act II : the Broadway musical after Oklahoma!. …”
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Citizenship on Catfish Row : race and nation in American popular culture / by Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Art and America -- The Nation in The Birth of a Nation -- Show Boat and the Strain of Race -- Porgy and Bess and the Danse Américaine -- Conclusion. …”
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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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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 white negress : literature, minstrelsy and the black-Jewish imaginary / by Harrison-Kahan, Lori

Table of Contents: “…From White Negress to Yiddishe mama: Sophie Tucker and the female blackface tradition -- The same Show Boat: Edna Ferber's interracial ideal -- Limitations of white: Fannie Hurst and the consumption of blackness -- Minstrel of the mountain: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.…”
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Edna Ferber's America / by McGraw, Eliza R. L.

Table of Contents: “…The girls: Dawn O'Hara and Fanny herself -- Wheat and emeralds: The girls and So big -- A pinprick of blood: Show Boat -- The cowboys, the indians, and the Jew: Cimarron -- Coloring the blue bloods: American beauty and Come and get it -- Passing fancy: Saratoga trunk -- Big spaces, big problems: Giant -- Conclusion: The Great White North: Great Son and Ice Palace.…”
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The song is you : musical theatre and the politics of bursting into song and dance / by Rogers, James Bradley, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…-- Bring on the Girls : The Princess Theatre & The (Tired) Businesswoman -- His Innermost Being : Brecht, Musicals, and the Politics of Identification -- The Rhythmic Integration of Blackness : Rouben Mamoulian and Show Boat -- The Exotic and Erotic Economy of Musical Impersonation -- Get Out of That Dress : David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song -- The Through-Sung Musical : From Ballet Ballads to Hamilton -- Conclusion. …”
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The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture / by Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: intimacy, publicity, and femininity -- Poor Eliza -- Pax americana : the case of Show Boat -- National brands, national body : imitation of life -- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation -- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : now, Voyager -- "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker -- The compulsion to repeat femininity : landscape for a good woman and the life and loves of a she-devil.…”
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood : American fictions of gender, race, and history / by Smyth, J. E., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Edna Ferber's America and the fictions of history -- The life of an unknown woman: So big, 1923-1953 -- Making believe: Show boat, race, and romance, 1925-1957 -- Marking the boundaries of classical Hollywood's rise and fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 -- Writing for Hollywood: Come and get it and Saratoga trunk, 1933-1947 -- Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 -- The new nationalism: Ice palace, 1954-1960.…”
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The song is you : musical theatre and the politics of bursting into song and dance / by Rogers, James Bradley, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…-- Bring on the Girls : The Princess Theatre & The (Tired) Businesswoman -- His Innermost Being : Brecht, Musicals, and the Politics of Identification -- The Rhythmic Integration of Blackness : Rouben Mamoulian and Show Boat -- The Exotic and Erotic Economy of Musical Impersonation -- Get Out of That Dress : David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song -- The Through-Sung Musical : From Ballet Ballads to Hamilton -- Conclusion. …”
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood : American fictions of gender, race, and history / by Smyth, J. E., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Edna Ferber's America and the fictions of history -- The life of an unknown woman: So big, 1923-1953 -- Making believe: Show boat, race, and romance, 1925-1957 -- Marking the boundaries of classical Hollywood's rise and fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 -- Writing for Hollywood: Come and get it and Saratoga trunk, 1933-1947 -- Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 -- The new nationalism: Ice palace, 1954-1960.…”
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The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical / by Hoffman, Warren, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…-- Act one : 1927-1957 -- Only make believe : performing race in Show boat -- Playing cowboys and Indians : forging whiteness in Oklahoma! …”
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The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical / by Hoffman, Warren, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…-- Act one: 1927-1957 -- Only make believe: performing race in Show boat -- Playing cowboys and indians: forging whiteness in Oklahoma! …”
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Musical theatre, realism and entertainment / by Taylor, Millie

Table of Contents: “…Musical characterisation in HMS Pinafore and the Rocky horror show -- Encoding the voice : Show boat, Guys and dolls, and musical theatre post-1960 -- Integration and distance in musical theatre : the case of Sweeney Todd -- Layers of representation and the creation of irony : Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Merrily we roll along and The last 5 years -- Alternatives to linearity : Cabaret, Kiss of the spider woman and Assassins -- Illusions of realism in West Side story and actor-musician performances -- Experiencing live musical theatre performance : La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla, queen of the desert -- I've heard that song before : the jukebox musical and entertainment in The Jersey boys, Rock of ages, Mamma mia and We will rock you.…”
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Broadway babies : the people who made the American musical / by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

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Cultural institutions of the novel /

Table of Contents: “…Warner -- "To love a murderer"-fantasy, sexuality, and the political novel : the case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mücke -- The limits of reformism : the novel, censorship, and the politics of adultery in nineteenth century France / Jann Matlock -- Romance for "big and little boys" : the US romantic revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener -- Pax Americana : the case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant.…”
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Musical theatre script and song analysis through the ages / by Olm, James

Table of Contents: “…Chapter I: Some Basic Terminology -- Chapter II: Need Energy in Lyric Analysis -- Chapter III: Life Force Energy in Lyric Analysis -- Chapter IV: Alignment Energy in Lyric Analysis -- Chapter V: Growth Moment Energy in Lyric Analysis -- Chapter VI: Basic Need & Life Force Energy Characteristics in Music Analysis -- Chapter VII: The Need Energy Music Circle of Truths -- Chapter VIII: The Life Force Energy Music Circle of Truths -- Chapter IX: The Analytical Process -- Chapter X: The Ground Plan -- Chapter XI: 1927-The Musical is Born -- Show Boat -- Chapter XII: 1940's-The Beginning of the Golden Age -- Oklahoma! …”
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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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