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The melodramatic thread : spectacle and political culture in modern France / James R. Lehning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehning, James R., 1947-
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary studies in history.
- Interdisciplinary studies in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--France--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--France--History--20th century.
- France--Politics and government--19th century.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--20th century.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Theater and the revolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the "melodramatic thread" that runs through modern French political culture
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Varieties of Performance in Nineteenth-Century Paris; 3. Boulevard Spectacles of the Third Republic; 4. Spectacles of Light and Darkness between the World Wars; 5. Commercial Spectacles in Postwar Paris; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612078453
- 9781282078451
- 1282078453
- 9780253117014
- 0253117011
- OCLC:
- 476141032
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