The plays of Alice Gerstenberg: cultural hegemony in the American little theatre

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Dramatist Alice Gerstenberg's plays on American upper class society were performed with great success by amateur groups in the 1920s, although they never succeeded commercially. Gerstenberg's plays lacked artistic quality and their scope was limited to the sensibilities of her own, affluent, class. The earlier plays were designed only for production in private homes, while later plays were put up in theaters. The post-Depression period saw a change in audience preferences and the genre of playwrights Gerstenberg belonged to became outdated.

Donations, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, 20th century AD, Social classes, Social class, American drama, Women dramatists, Women playwrights, Little theater movement, Gerstenberg, Alice

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Cultural policy through public display

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Modern cultural displays have become an effective medium of shaping public opinion over crucial political and social questions. Cultural displays have political and poetic dimensions as the produced, staged, and invented cultural forms convey a particular meaning to people. Politicians can use these forms in large-scale cultural displays to advance their agendas to the public. The ability to produce meaning through cultural forms gives power to the politicians.

Social aspects, Analysis, Political aspects, Cultural policy, Culture diffusion, Public opinion

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Charcot and the Theatre of Hysteria

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Jean-Martin Charcot was the first neurologist at the Salpetriere Asylum in Paris, France. Charcot conducted studies on the asylum's patients, which included taking photographs of female hysterical patients in erotic poses. From such collection of photographs, Charcot's Theater of Hysteria developed. Later observers of Charcot's photographs came to the conclusion that hysteria was more a supreme means of expression rather than a pathological condition.

Research, Practice, Neurologists, Hysteria (Mental disorder), Charcot, Jean-Marie

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