American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance

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“In American Puppet Modernism, Bell presents a wide-ranging history of puppets and performing objects within a US socio-political context, contributing new insight into, and detailed analysis of, their roles in US society and theatre history. He simultaneously investigates and re-thinks the role of material objects on stage and in popular culture.” - Alissa Mello, Platform. John Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA. Table of contents (12 chapters): Front Matter Pages i-xii / Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance, by John Bell. p1-16 / The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History, by John Bell, p.17-30 / Shalako Puppets and Nineteenth-Century Ritual, by John Bell, p.31-48 / The Little Theatre Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer: Midwest Puppet Modernism, by John Bell, p.49-70 / New York Puppet Modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heap, by John Bell, p.71-96 / Puppets and Propaganda: 1930s Parades in New York City, by John Bell, p.97-122 / American Puppet Modernism in the 1930s: Gertrude Stein’s Identity, by John Bell, p.123-135 / From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and World’s Fair Puppet Theatre, by John Bell p.137-146 / Performing Objects, Special Effects, and Mass Media, by John Bell, p.147-166 / Automobile Performance and Kustom Kulture, by John Bell, p.167-188 / Beyond the Cold War: Bread and Puppet Theater at the End of the Century, by John Bell, p.189-218 / Old and New Materials: Wood, Paper, Metal, Plastic, Bone, by John Bell, p.219-230 / Back Matter p.231-280