All Play and No Work - Paul Gagliardi

All Play and No Work

American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project

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Buch | Hardcover
237 Seiten
2023
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-2215-6 (ISBN)
113,45 inkl. MwSt
Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief at a time when access to work was difficult. Gagliardi asks, what does it mean that many plays produced by the FTP celebrated forms of labor like speculation and swindling?     

All Play and No Work directly contradicts the promoted ideals of work found in American society, culture, and within the broader New Deal itself. Gagliardi shows how comedies of the Great Depression engaged questions of labor, labor history, and labor ethics. He considers the breadth of the FTP’s production history, staging plays including Ah, Wilderness!, Help Yourself, and Mississippi Rainbow.

Gagliardi examines backstage comedies, middle-class comedies, comedies of chance, and con-artist comedies that employed diverse casts and crew and contained radical economic and labor ideas. He contextualizes these plays within the ideologically complicated New Deal, showing how programs like the Social Security Act straddled progressive ideals and conservative, capitalist norms. Addressing topics including the politicization of theatrical labor and the real dangers of unchecked economic con artists, the comic plays of the FTP reveal acts of political resistance and inequality that reflected the concerns of their audiences.

Paul Gagliardi is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Marquette University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4399-2215-2 / 1439922152
ISBN-13 978-1-4399-2215-6 / 9781439922156
Zustand Neuware
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