Описание: Offers an overview of international protocol and its associated practices, including those found within the context of diplomatic relations and the business world
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment.The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.
Автор: Dupont-Monod, Clara Название: The Revolt ISBN: 1529402905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529402902 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Kingdom of France, 1173. A remarkable queen rallies her sons against a tyrannical king - their father.
Автор: Dupont-Monod, Clara Название: The Revolt ISBN: 1529402883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529402889 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Kingdom of France, 1173. A remarkable queen rallies her sons against a tyrannical king - their father.
Описание: Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence of Aryan superiority. In the minds of many Americans, further German aggression could be prevented only if the population's faith in its moral and cultural superiority was shattered. In Settling Scores, David Monod examines the attempted ""denazification"" of the German music world by the Music Control Branch of the Information Control Division of Military Government.
The occupying American forces barred from the stage and concert hall all former Nazi Party members and even anyone deemed to display an ""authoritarian personality."" They also imported European and American music. These actions, however, divided American officials and outraged German audiences and performers. Nonetheless, the long-term effects were greater than has been previously recognized, as German government officials regained local control and voluntarily limited their involvement in artistic life while promoting ""new"" (anti-Nazi) music.
Автор: Beacham Richard C. Название: Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre ISBN: 0415513316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415513319 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. Richard Beacham brings together for the first time, selections from all his major works.
Автор: Belot Adolphe Название: Mademoiselle Giraud: My Wife ISBN: 1513295381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781513295381 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1102.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1870) is a novel by Adolphe Belot. Written at the height of his career as a popular playwright, the novel proved immensely popular and caused a stir with its depiction of homosexuality. Recognized today as an important work of French literature and in the history of sexuality, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife is a highly original, frequently funny, and ultimately tragic work of fiction from an underappreciated writer of nineteenth century France.
Having forged a life of success and financial security for himself as a businessman, Adrien returns to Paris to find a wife. Singularly obsessed with tying his fate to a respectable woman, he finds himself struggling to remain realistic in his standards. Just when he thinks he will remain a bachelor for the rest of his days, Adrien meets the beautiful Paule Giraud, a friend of the influential Countess Berthe de Blangy. After a brief courtship, he marries Giraud only to find himself rejected in the bedroom. As he succumbs to jealousy and suspicion, Adrien becomes abusive and petulant, eventually leaving his wife in Paris for the city of Nice. There, he meets the Count de Blangy, who reveals to the unsuspecting husband the secret of his wife's sexual habits: for years, she has engaged in a lesbian affair with her friend Berthe. Enraged and dumbfounded, Adrien hatches a plan with the Count to separate their wives and punish them for their sexual deviancy. Tragic and scandalous, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife was a bestselling story of homosexuality told from the point of view of an author who clearly possessed his society's reprehensibly oppressive views on sex and gender. Regardless, Belot's novel remains an important landmark in the historical representation of homosexuality in literature.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Adolphe Belot's Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
Автор: Taine Hippolyte Adolphe Название: The Revolution - II: The Jacobin Conquest ISBN: 191089303X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910893036 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
