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Author : Brent Salter
Release : 2022-01-06
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 751/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951 by : Brent Salter
Download or read book Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856–1951 written by Brent Salter. This book was released on 2022-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book illuminates the legal and business history of the American theatre through new archival discoveries.
Author : Brent Salter
Release : 2021
Genre : Copyright
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre by : Brent Salter
Download or read book Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre written by Brent Salter. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a historical account about the negotiation of creativity in the American theatre. It is a history of how the American theatre organized its relationships and how stakeholders, and in particular dramatists, responded to these developments. The book examines how copyright law has interacted with the American theatre in dynamic and counterintuitive ways, helping to facilitate theatrical production between authors of original copyright works and audiences. But copyright plays only a supporting role in the much larger theatrical economy. This is a history of how the industry was shaped by the evolution of mediating businesses and the practices they established. The growth in mediating businesses, and responses to these developments, has accompanied enduring ambiguities about the authority dramatists are often assumed to have over the work they create"--
Author : Douglas L. Reside
Release : 2023
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fixing the Musical by : Douglas L. Reside
Download or read book Fixing the Musical written by Douglas L. Reside. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube. The shows audiences know, and the texts and music they expect to hear when they attend a production, are defined by media consumed at home more than by memories of performances witnessed in the theatre. For example, author Doug Reside shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s - when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium. And Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn't already had the opportunity to learn the score by listening to free digital streams of the original cast recording. The technologies that made these media possible developed concurrently with and shaped the American musical as an art form. Reside uncovers how the affordances and limitations of these technologies established a repertory of titles that are most frequently performed and defined by the texts used in these performances. Fixing the Musical argues that the musicals we most remember are those which most effectively used their era's best recording and distribution technologies to document and share the work with those who would never see the original production on Broadway.
Author : Paul Fryer
Release : 2023-11-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910 by : Paul Fryer
Download or read book Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910 written by Paul Fryer. This book was released on 2023-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "blockbusters" of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon of the "smash hit" show is not restricted to modern Broadway. This is a world that encompassed the ground-breaking stage technology of Ben Hur, the wide political impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the sheer creative originality of L'Enfant Prodigue. Supporting the "star" system, productions featured some of the greatest names of the period - Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, James O'Neill and Dion Boucicault. This was the very dawning of a new media age, which saw many of the productions transfer to the new world of silent cinema for the very first time
Author : Rosamund Davies
Release : 2023-07-27
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 696/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies by : Rosamund Davies
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies written by Rosamund Davies. This book was released on 2023-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars. It covers topics and concepts central to the study of screenwriting and the screenplay in relation to film, television, web series, animation, games and other interactive media, and includes a range of approaches, from theoretical perspectives to in-depth case studies. 44 scholars from around the globe demonstrate the range and depths of this new and expanding area of study. As the chapters of this Handbook demonstrate, shifting the focus from the finished film to the process of screenwriting and the text of the screenplay facilitates valuable new insights. This Handbook is the first of its kind, an indispensable compendium for both academics and practitioners.
