American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage : Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy /: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage : Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy /: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy. (2015)
- Main Title:
- American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage : Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy
- Further Information:
- Note: Maya Cantu.
- Authors:
- Dr, Cantu, Maya
- Contents:
- Introduction: Glass Slippers and Glass Ceilings in the Twenty-First Century, or Cinderella Returns to Broadway; 1. "Who Are These American Cinderellas?:" Working Girls, Chorus Girls, and American Dreams for Women in the 1920s; 2. Merman Was a Lady: The 1930s Cinderella-Broad and Burlesquing the Genteel Tradition; 3. "Make Up Your Mind:" Boss Ladies and Enchantresses in the 1940s Broadway Musical; 4. "Twentieth-Century Fairy Tales:" Princesses, Prostitutes, and the Feminine Mystique in the Broadway Musicals of the 1950s; 5. Coda: Rewriting the Broadway Cinderella Story; Bibliography;
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (288 pages), (11 illustrations)
- Subjects:
- Gender Studies
Theater/Broadway & Musical Revue
Theatre direction & production
Theatre studies - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137534606
1137534605 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.40270
- Ingest File:
- 02_001.xml