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The new humor in the progressive era = Americanization and the vaudeville comedian /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The new humor in the progressive era/ Rick DesRochers.
Reminder of title:	Americanization and the vaudeville comedian /
Author:	DesRochers, Rick.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	212 p. :4 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Comedians - History - 20th century - United States. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137357185 (electronic bk.) :

The new humor in the progressive era = Americanization and the vaudeville comedian /
DesRochers, Rick.

The new humor in the progressive eraAmericanization and the vaudeville comedian /[electronic resource] :Rick DesRochers. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 212 p. :4 b&w, ill. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.

Electronic book text.

1. Americanization: Progressive Era Reformers, Cultural Critics, and Popular Comic Entertainments 2. Putting It Over in American Vaudeville 3. The New Humor: Ethnic Acts and Family Acts 4. The Marx Brothers Go To School 5. The New Woman and the Female Comedian as Social Insurgent Epilogue.

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By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of Americanness..Between 1881 and 1928, comic vaudevillians used the new humor to push and redefine the boundaries of class, ethnicity, and gender in the defiance of Progressive era efforts at Americanization. Using satire, broad physical behavior, and mocking the propriety of the middle class, the new humor of vaudeville comedy was intentionally disruptive to Anglo-American values. By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Marie Dressler, DesRochers examines the relationship between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of Americanness..

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Rick DesRochers is Associate Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy at Long Island University Post, USA.

ISBN: 1137357185 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1010239
Comedians
--History--United States.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PN1968.U5 / D38 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 792.70973

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