{"title":"Book Review: Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film by Juan Sebastián Ospina León","authors":"L. Serna","doi":"10.1177/17483727221074666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727221074666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131082004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The National (Hippo)Drama: Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Touring Circus","authors":"B. Potter","doi":"10.1177/17483727211071074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211071074","url":null,"abstract":"This article demonstrates how nineteenth-century Scottish touring circus sits at the intersection of the National Drama and the imperial spectacle of the circus. It offers a timely analysis of how Scottish (inter)nationalism and nation formation were interwoven with imperialist discourse in popular public imaginaries. By analysing the deployment of and investment in Unionist-nationalist Scottish imagery in playbills, newspapers, and life-writing accounts, and in archives this article newly brings to light, I argue two things: firstly, that the continuities between rural touring and metropolitan permanent circuses helped bridge the historic cultural and ethnic divide between Highland and Lowland communities; and secondly, that this creation of a unified Scottish identity engendered and reflected an (inter)nationalist and imperial sentiment in diverse Scottish audiences. This article, therefore, complicates current conceptions and historiographies of Scottish nationalism which overlook how commitment to Unionism and the empire was often a prerequisite for nationalist feeling.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128746945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Does Polly Dance? Caste and the Function of Dance in the Victorian Theatre","authors":"A. Hodgson","doi":"10.1177/17483727211047986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211047986","url":null,"abstract":"What is the effect of the dance scene in Tom Robertson's play Caste? Little emphasis has been placed on the contribution of dance to Victorian theatre practice. Yet dance was ubiquitous, featuring prominently in such genres as melodrama and extravaganza, and providing the source material for burlesque. Dance was employed as a component of the mise-en-scène, as a marker of transformation, and to express what could not otherwise be expressed in a censored theatrical environment. In Caste these functions serve to provide a counterweight to, and enable a critique of, the play's prevailing naturalism.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126264842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti","authors":"G. Bouchard","doi":"10.1177/17483727211059083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211059083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125613833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Modern Weaver Lad: Melodrama and Dialect Literature","authors":"Taryn Hakala","doi":"10.1177/17483727211038200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211038200","url":null,"abstract":"Nineteenth-century Lancastrians feared the death of regional dialects due to increased migration to manufacturing areas, the expansion of the railways, and compulsory state education. This fear fuelled the proliferation of dialect glossaries as well as dialect writing in the form of poems, songs, stories, and sketches. While scholars have written about these forms, the role of Lancashire dialect in theatrical contexts has been understudied. This article draws on recent studies in melodrama and performance sociolinguistics to examine Lancashire dialect writer Ben Brierley's domestic melodrama The Lancashire Weaver Lad. I argue that through its complex representation of ‘Lancashireness’ the play provided new ways for mid-Victorian Lancastrians to understand, construct, and perform modern Lancashire identities.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130079974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema by Ian Christie","authors":"M. Solomon","doi":"10.1177/17483727211062082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211062082","url":null,"abstract":"has already offered a surfeit of evidence and argumentation. It bears noting that Picture Personalities was a slim volume whose index ended at page 160. Coincidentally, I reviewed the book as a grad student; summarizing my reservations in the pages of The Velvet Light Trap, I suggested that ‘most of my complaints concerning the book are directly attributable to its brevity and indicate that deCordova’s expert account of the star system would only have increased in impressiveness had its scope been expanded.” (p. 105) Finding myself coming full circle with Shail’s weighty volume, I am inclined to the inverse as a conclusion: there is probably enough material in The Origins of the Film Star System for two books, and its bifurcated structure confesses as much. Readers will be excused if they find themselves caught between wanting less (demonstration through evidence) and desiring more (the conceptualization of stardom). That caveat aside, Shail has provided a fresh account of the emergence of the star system, impressively systematic in its argumentation, that could easily become the new standard for the next thirty years.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114257026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Un)making a Monster: Melodrama, The Satirist, and the Cartoons of Samuel De Wilde","authors":"David Mayer, Michael Gamer","doi":"10.1177/17483727211039815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211039815","url":null,"abstract":"Our essay takes up the well-known satirical print, ‘The Monster Melo-Drame’, and re-attaches it to several contexts to bring forward its richness and ambiguity as an image. We begin by considering its artist (Samuel De Wilde), printer (Samuel Tipper), and publisher (The Satirist), interpreting the print in its original publication and in dialogue with the essay that accompanied it in the January 1808 issue of the Satirist. The image, we argue, should not be read on its own but rather as the first of a trio of prints De Wilde made for that magazine. Taken together, the images show the Satirist engaging in a sustained campaign against London’s Theatres Royal, one in which melodrama is a subject but not a primary target. Part of our essay’s work is necessarily that of description: identifying figures, references, and tableaux as these prints comment on a rapidly changing theatrical scene between 1807 and 1809. Considered as a set, De Wilde’s prints constituted a fundamental part of the Satirist’s attacks on the Drury Lane Theatre management, particularly Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his son Thomas Sheridan, whom they represent as corrupt caretakers of that institution and of the national drama.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132371724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Discovering Lost Films of Georges Méliès in Fin-de-Siecle Flip Books (1896–1901) by Thierry Lecointe, Pascal Fouché, Robert Byrne, Pamela Hutchinson","authors":"David Mayer","doi":"10.1177/17483727211062071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211062071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121522214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiencing Melodrama, Imagining Audiences: Perspectives on the Representation of the Melodrama Spectator","authors":"Jim Davis","doi":"10.1177/17483727211053302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211053302","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers representations of melodrama audiences by Louis-Léopold Boilly and Honoré Daumier and what they may or may not tell us about spectator response. It also looks at emotional response to melodrama as a form of active spectatorship.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133217231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming Modern: Melodrama and Culture in Britain and America","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/17483727211061888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727211061888","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123886906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}