Recently added articles from Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film:
Editorial
Jun 01, 2008; ... This number marks a change in the editorial team of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. From the Winter 2008 volume, David Mayer will step down as Editor, continuing as a Contributing Editor. We will be joined by Jim Davis, whose work will be familiar to all scholars of nineteenth century ...
'Chaste as a picture by Wilkie': The Relationship Between Comic Performance and Genre Painting in Early Nineteenth-Century British Theatre
Jun 01, 2008; ... The dramatist George Colman the Younger describes a private impersonation of a fellow-passenger on a coach by the actor Charles Mathews as 'humorous as a sketch by Hogarth, chaste as a picture by Wilkie.'1 Even in his coarsest characters, says Ann Mathews of her husband, 'it was like looking at ...
Griffith in the Twilight
Jun 01, 2008; ... D[avid] W[ark] Griffith is best known to today's theatre scholars as the pioneer director of large-scale silent motion pictures, most notably The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). These are but two of his more than 570 films, as many as a third of them derived from the Victorian ...
Staging the Page: Visibility and Invisibility in Oscar Wilde's Salome
Jun 01, 2008; ... Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for the original English translation of Oscar Wilde's Salome (1894) are regarded by many critics as representing the illustrator's commentary on the playwright's relation to his play - although opinion is divided as to whether this commentary comprises an ...
Bologna: The Retrieved Cinema
Jun 01, 2008; ... The Bologna film festival 'Il cinema ritrovato' [The retrieved cinema] is an annual showcase of archival prints that have been recently restored by film archives and collectors from all over the world. A celebration of film archivalia, it usually offers a mix of silent and sound films, and of ...
Shakespeare and the Victorians/Victorian Shakespeare, Volume I: Theatre, Drama and Performance
Jun 01, 2008; ... Adrian Poole, Shakespeare and the Victorians. The Arden Critical Companions. London: The Arden Shakespeare/Thomson Learning, 2004. xix + 296 pp. $25.98 paper. Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole, eds, Victorian Shakespeare, Volume I: Theatre, Drama and Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave ...
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain
Jun 01, 2008; ... Newey, Katherine, Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 269 pp. ?45.00; $75.00 Working with women playwrights from earlier centuries has been, until relatively recently, a salvage operation. Feminist historians have spent countless ...
Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity/Staging Politics and Gender: French Women's Drama, 1880-1923
Jun 01, 2008; ... Sally Debra Charnow, Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Xi + 268 pp. $75.00; £42.00. Cecilia Beach, Staging Politics and Gender: French Women's Drama, ...
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
Jun 01, 2008; ... Jill Lane, Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xi + 288 pp. $55.00. Much valuable scholarship on the history of blackface has emerged since the publication of Eric Lott's seminal Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ...
Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator
Jun 01, 2008; ... Luigi Pirandello, Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 240 pp. $18. In 1915 in the pages of the journal La nuova antologia, Luigi Pirandello published a novel in serial format, Si ...
The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War, 1914-1918
Jun 01, 2008; ... Michael Hammond, The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War, 1914-1918. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. £45. Michael Hammond writes that two questions motivated his study of cinema in Britain during World War I. First, he wonders how the war affected the development ...
Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
Jun 01, 2008; ... Nancy Mowll Mathews, with Charles Musser, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910. Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005. 240 pp. $65. In 1910, J. Stuart Blackton attended the New York men's artist group, the Salmagundi Club, where he discussed his ideas of ...
R. W. Paul: The Collected Films, 1895-1908
Jun 01, 2008; ... R. W. Paul: The Collected Films, 1895-1908. London: British Film Institute, 2006. DVD, region 2. 147 mins. ?19.99. Robert W. Paul came to the film business as an electrical engineer, hired in 1894 to make copies of the Kinetscope, Edison's peephole moving picture viewing device. By the ...
Humanist and Emotional Beginnings of a Nationalist Indian Cinema in Bombay: With Kracauer in the footsteps of Phalke
Jun 01, 2008; ... Brigitte Schulze, Humanist and Emotional Beginnings of a Nationalist Indian Cinema in Bombay: With Kracauer in the footsteps of Phalke. Berlin: Avinus Verlag, 2003. 419 pp. 32Ä. Brigitte Schulze's book departs substantively and methodologically from most existing accounts of the origins ...
Music and the Representation of History in Charles Kean's Revival of Shakespeare's Henry V1
Jun 01, 2007; ... Actor-managers in the nineteenth century took it for granted that orchestral accompaniment was as integral to performance of Shakespeare as to melodrama. Charles Kean was no exception. All the plays in his series of Shakespearian revivals at the Princess's Theatre, London in the 1850s ...
'No end to dramatic novelty': Ira Aldridge at the Royal Coburg Theatre
Jun 01, 2007; ... Ira Aldridge had his London début at the Royalty Theatre in the East End on 11 May 1825, playing Othello before a small but appreciative audience, and in the months that followed he continued performing there in melodramas such as Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko, Thomas Morton's The Slave, Matthew ...
The Forgotten Century: York's Theatre Royal between 1803 and 1911
Jun 01, 2007; ... In public discourse as well as academic research, the history of York's Theatre Royal tends to be reduced to two 'highlights' from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries: the theatre's period under the celebrated impresario, Tate Wilkinson, and the popular success of the 'York Citizens' Theatre ...
'The Triumph of the Supers': Hauptmann's The Weavers as Theatrical Event
Jun 01, 2007; ... 'Die Weber A Threat to the State' (headline, New York Volkszeitung, 29 October 1894) 'The day before yesterday I was at the theatre; they played Hauptmann's The Weavers. Although I had read the whole play in order to be able to follow it, I could not catch all the ...
The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in the Nineteenth Century/Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama through Music/The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty/German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner
Jun 01, 2007; ... Anselm Gerhard, The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in the Nineteenth Century. Tr. Mary Whittall. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi + 503 pp. $50.00. Gilles de Van, Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama through Music. Tr. Gilda Roberts. Chicago: The University of Chicago ...
Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950/Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities
Jun 01, 2007; ... Mark Hampton, Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. vii + 218 pp. $35.00. Laurel Brake, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein. Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. New York: Palgrave, 2000. 408 pp. £64.00; ...