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Uncle Tom's cabin on the American stage and screen [electronic resource] / John W. Frick.

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"No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This booktraces the major dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through 'modern' versions on film. Frick examines the major...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Frick, John W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896. > Uncle Tom's cabin.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896 > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896 > Stage history.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896 > Dramatic production.
Uncle Tom > (Fictitious character)
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > Film adaptations.
Didactic fiction, American > History and criticism.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896.
Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
American fiction.
Didactic fiction, American.
Film adaptations.
Literature > Adaptations.
Theater.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Halfway between sermon and social theory: the mania for "Tom mania"
  • "There is no arguing with pictures": the Aiken/Howard Uncle Tom's cabin
  • "A play to which no apologist for slavery could object": the Conway/Kimball/Barnum Uncle Tom's cabin
  • "O' it was a sight worth seeing": Uncle Tom hits the road
  • Long live Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom's cabin in the twentieth century
  • Uncle Tom in middle age: from a stage tradition to the silver screen
  • Epilogue: the story that won't stay dead.

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