British pantomime performance /

This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences. British pantomime draws audiences into the story, an engagement with the hero, and an empathe...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Taylor, Millie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2007
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; The Prologue: What's Behind Them?; Money Matters; Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes; Fantasy and Illusion in Design; Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition; Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories; Playing with Distance in Pantoland; Is She or Isn't He? Gender and Identity; Audience Participation, Community and Ritual; Topical Reference and the Unique Event; Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy; Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music; A Utopian Community of Dancers.