American puppetry : collections, history, and performance / edited by Phyllis T. Dircks ; foreword by Steve Abrams.

Other author Dircks, Phyllis T.
Format Book
Publication InfoJefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2004.
Descriptionvii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents A snapshot of puppeteers of the United States and Canada / Vincent Anthony -- A short view of American puppetry / Lowell Swortzell -- Puppetry and related materials in the Harvard theatre collection / Fredric Woodbridge Wilson -- Asian puppets at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History / Roy W. Hamilton -- The Center for Puppetry Arts Museum collection / Nancy Lohman Staub -- The Bread & Puppet Theater Company collection / Elka Schumann -- Puppets and "the iconography of drama": the Brander Matthews collection at Columbia University / John Bell -- The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry collection / Phyllis T. Dircks -- Paul McPharlin and puppetry at the Detroit Institute of Arts / John Bell -- The Bil Baird World of Puppets at the Charles H. MacNider Museum / Richard Leet -- The puppet collection of the American Museum of Natural History / Kathy Foley and Ann Wright-Parsons -- The Burr Tillstrom collection and archives at the Chicago Historical Society / Bernard F. Reilly -- The Marionette Theatre of Peter Arnott at Harvard University / Annette Fern -- The Lou Harrison collection: music and puppetry East to West / Kathy Foley -- The Dwiggins Marionettes at the Boston Public Library / Roberta Zonghi -- The puppet collection of the National Museum of American History / Ellen Roney Hughes and Dwight Blocker Bowers -- "Bringing together man and nature": the theater of Julie Taymor / Alan Woods -- Exhibitions and collections of the Jim Henson Company / Leslee Asch -- Howdy Doody in the courtroom: a puppet custody case / Phyllis T. Dircks -- The fundamentals of marionette care / Mina Gregory, Maureen Russell, and Cara Varnell -- Puppetry in cyberspace: developing virtual performance spaces / Mary Flanagan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.
LCCN 2004009586
ISBN0786418966 (softcover : alk. paper)

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