Broadway and corporate capitalism : the rise of the professional-managerial class, 1900-1920 /

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Schwartz, Michael, 1963 October 18-
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
الطبعة:1st ed.
سلاسل:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction: a matter for experts
  • The growth of Broadway, the emergence of the PMC
  • Brave New York : nowhere to go but up
  • The show business
  • Who were the PMC?
  • Meet the experts
  • Where the actors stood : the actors' strike
  • The problem of nerves
  • Dim shadows : pre-PMC consciousness
  • Modern men and modern nerves
  • Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, super expert
  • Fitch and the psychological moment
  • Neurasthenics caught on Kodak
  • Muckraking the playing field : emerging PMC class consciousness
  • The freshest kids in town
  • Fair play : The college widow, Strongheart, and Brown of Harvard
  • Sweepings from the muckrakes : The lion and the mouse
  • Strikers, gentlemen, and toughs : The boss
  • A size thirteen collar : musicals and PMC class consciousness
  • The musical : pre-post-mortem
  • The providences of God : The Sultan of Sulu
  • Musicals grow up for a moment : the princess shows
  • Showing a class how to move : the castles
  • System and farce : emerging PMC habitus
  • Cohan as super model, positive and negative
  • F.W. Taylor : a scientific call for PMC
  • Losing and making a fortune : Brewster's millions
  • Grant Mitchell : PMC poster boy
  • Humbugging prelude : Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
  • Mitchell on the rise : it pays to advertise
  • PMC apotheosis : a tailor-made man
  • Conclusion : business as usual
  • Clarence : leading the U.S. safely into the 1920s
  • Freud and the PMC
  • O'Neill and psychological capital
  • Other cures for nerves : a look at the 1920s
  • Postscript : the return of the tailor-made man.