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Author Leonhardt, Nic, author.

Title Theatre across oceans : mediators of transatlantic exchange, 1890-1925 / Nic Leonhardt
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Transnational theatre histories
Transnational theatre histories.
Contents Chapter 1. Meandering (Theatre) Histories -- Chapter 2. "Transfer, Transmission, Translation" of Countries, Oceans, News -- Chapter 3. Agencies Backstage, Bookings, Bureaucracy -- Chapter 4. Transatlantic Mediators of Theatre -- Chapter 5. Multifurcations: The Course and Decline of Transatlantic Theatre Flows during the First World War -- Chapter 6. Conclusion
Summary Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book. Nic Leonhardt is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on theatre history of the nineteenth and twentieth century and is strongly interdisciplinary and transnational in approach. Since 2016 she has been the senior researcher and associate director of the ERC (European Research Council) project "Developing Theatre" at LMU Munich, as well as director of the Centre for Global Theatre History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from German
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Subject Theater -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century
Theater -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 20th century
Theatrical managers -- History
Theatrical agents -- History
International relations
Theater
Theatrical agents
Theatrical managers
SUBJECT Europe -- Relations -- North America
North America -- Relations -- Europe
Europe -- Relations -- Latin America
Latin America -- Relations -- Europe
Subject Atlantic Ocean Region
Europe
Latin America
North America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030763558
3030763552
Other Titles Theater über Ozeane. English