History of Performing Arts

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.

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow.

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.

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

Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world.

The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States.

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More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination.

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching.

The Wire's provocative subject matter, layered narrative and explicit critiques of American socio-economic institutions make it one of the most teachable television series in recent years.

Start your engines--for the fun, controversy and life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff, RuPaul's DragU.

Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love.

The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps.