American theater in the culture of the Cold War : producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962 / Bruce McConachie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McConachie, Bruce A.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Studies in theatre history & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States--History--20th century.

Theater.

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment-what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two-as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure.McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-333) and index.

ISBN:

9781587294471

1587294478

OCLC:

775873056