Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals
Stage Mothers
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Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and psychoanalytical positions, Gina MacKenzie establishes, defines, and interprets mother figures in contemporary Broadway, according to original categorizations of the absent, inconsequential, and overbearing mothers. MacKenzie considers how and why commercial representation of mother figures are limited and predominantly negative, even as fiction, poetry, and other forms of drama offer a much wider and progressive view of the varieties of motherhood possible in society, asserting the need for greater representation of mother figures in commercial musical theatre today.
Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and psychoanalytical positions, Gina MacKenzie establishes, defines, and interprets mother figures in contemporary Broadway, according to original categorizations of the absent, inconsequential, and overbearing mothers. MacKenzie considers how and why commercial representation of mother figures are limited and predominantly negative, even as fiction, poetry, and other forms of drama offer a much wider and progressive view of the varieties of motherhood possible in society, asserting the need for greater representation of mother figures in commercial musical theatre today.
Appeals to scholars of American studies, drama, contemporary theatre, and women’s studies Merges popular theatre culture and literary theory as well as engages with music theory, performance studies, and drama theory Examples how musical theatre defines the American imagination
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Gina Masucci MacKenzie
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“This is a superb accomplishment. To my knowledge, there’s nothing on the market like it. This wonderfully detailed, rich history of the musical is coupled with Professor MacKenzie’s skillful use of some of the most fashionable critics in academic circles. And it is with authority that in the final chapter she calls for exploring motherhood ‘in all its potential facets,’ envisioning characters in the musical who are ‘able to transcend the bonds of maternity, while still representing it.’” (Sidney Homan, Professor of English, University of Florida, USA, and author of Comedy Acting for Theatre (2018))
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