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American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War : Producing & Contesting Containment, 1947-1962, Hardback Book

American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War : Producing & Contesting Containment, 1947-1962 Hardback

Edited by Thomas Postlewait

Part of the Studies in Theater History & Culture series

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In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containmentOCowhat happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the twoOCoas the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing.

Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure.McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying on scripts, set designs, reviews, memoirs, and other evidence.

After establishing his theoretical framework, he focuses on three archtypal figures of containment significant in Cold War culture, Empty Boys, Family Circles, and Fragmented Heroes.

McConachie uses a range of plays, musicals, and modern dances from the dominant culture of the Cold War to discuss these figures, includinga"The Seven Year Itch," a"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof";a"The King and I," "A Raisin in the Sun," a"Night Journey," anda"The Crucible."aIn an epilogue, he discusses the legacy of Cold War theater from 1962 to 1992.Original and provocative, a"American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War"ailluminates the mind of the spectator in the context of Cold War culture; it uses cognitive studies and media theory to move away from semiotics and psychoanalysis, forging a new way of interpreting theater history."

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