This is a library resources guide for the AMS4930/AMS6805 course About Face. This guide provides resources to promote insight into how representations have shaped American theatre aesthetics.
Abstracts and some full text for articles about the performing arts, including drama, theatre, dance, film, and television. Most full text from the past 10 years.
JSTOR coverage spans a variety of disciplines, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences. The included content is comprehensive for archival and historical materials in the collection’s scholarly titles. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal is not available directly via JSTOR, however the USF Libraries provides access to current issues of a majority of these titles in other database and e-journal subscriptions.
This book traces types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and impersonation explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.
Links to USF Library Catalog eBook.
An exploration of relations in American popular culture, focusing particularly on this strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment. Although this performance came to be denounced as mockery and shamefacedly erased from most modern accounts of American cultural history, Strausbaugh shows that, nevertheless, its impact has been deep and long-lasting.
Physical book, available at both Tampa & St. Petersburg campus libraries.