Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance

Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.

Author: M. Schweitzer
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/11/2015
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137437341

About the Author

Marlis Schweitzer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at York University, Canada. Her publications include When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture and Performing Objects and Theatrical Things (co-edited with Joanne Zerdy, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, and TDR. She is the editor of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada.