History of Performing Arts

While Richard Nixon's accomplishments and shortcomings are well-documented, one often ignored aspect of his career is his influence on the media conduct of politicians.

Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15.

A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities.

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Pencils down--graphite and eyebrow--and eyes to front of the room for this one-of-a-kind lesson.

Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset.

Often overlooked in the history of broadcast television, The CW became a top-rated cable network in primetime during the mid-2000s, at a moment when many critics predicted the death of the medium.

The year 1966 was when many TV viewers all over America discovered the wonders of "e;in living color.

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa.

The Wild Wild West premiered on CBS in 1965, just as network dominance of television Westerns was waning and the global James Bond phenomenon was in full force.

Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact.

Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture.

Called "e;The Poet Laureate of Radio"e; by critics, Norman Corwin was the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when radio itself dominated public attention.

When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name.

When the Television Food Network launched in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: it would teach people how to cook well, with side trips into the economics of food and healthy living.

There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon.

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When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age.

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television.

This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen.

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes?

This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre.

Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth.

This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.

In past decades portrayals of mental illness on television were limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks.

In many pop culture texts, "e;monsters"e; can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.

Both in life and death, Queen Victoria is among the most popular monarchs to be committed to film.

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Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the most dangerous and difficult places for a woman to be.

Before radio and sound movies, early 20th century performers and lecturers traveled the nation providing entertainment and education to Americans thirsty for culture.

This first-ever biography exploring the life of Ping Chong (1946), successful avant-garde artist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, focuses on his valuable contributions to modern theatre.

Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Baptist school.

Much has been written about the Walt Disney Company's productions, but the focus has largely been on animation and feature film created by Disney.

Originally known as a brand for greeting cards, Hallmark has seen a surge in popularity since the early 2010s for its made-for-TV movies and television channels: the Hallmark Channel and its spinoffs, Hallmark Movie Channel (now Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) and Hallmark Drama.

The CW's hit adaptation of Supergirl is a new take on the classic DC character for a new audience.

The West Wing, first broadcast in 1999, is thought by many to have been one of the most significant dramas shown on network television.

This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy.

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The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion.

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties.

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century.

Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp.

Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual experience.

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV history.

Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883).

Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment.

Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associated with Pat Robertson), the ABC Family/Freeform network has gone through a number of changes in name and ownership.

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history.

Over the past half-century Doctor Who has defined science fiction television.