G K Hall Bibliographic Guide To Theatre Arts

The Bibliographic Guide to Theatre Arts lists all new materials catalogued during 1995 by the New York Public Library Theatre and Drama Collections, with additional entries from LC MARC tapes. Entries cover all aspects of the theatre: the stage, cinema, radio, television, nightclubs, the circus, vaudeville, marionettes and magic; and of drama - tragedy, comedy, ballet and film. Non-book as well as book materials are included: typescripts of plays, promptbooks, screenplays, production scripts, collections of drama, translations and original editions. A supplement to the Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections, The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library (G.K. Hall, 1967).

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

"The G. K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to Theatre Arts lists recent publications catalogued during the past year by The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library with additional entries from Library of Congress MARC tapes. It also serves in part as an annual supplement to the Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections, The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library." "The word "theatre" is interpreted in its broadest sense and covers the stage, cinema, radio, television, nightclub performances, the circus, vaudeville, marionettes and magic. Holdings of the Theatre Collection relate to stage history, production techniques, acting, theatre criticism, biography, and material on individual theatres. Typescripts of plays, promptbooks, shooting scripts of motion pictures, and radio and television production scripts make up an important segment of the Collection's holdings." "The Drama Collection consists of plays written in the minor as well as the major languages; translations as well as original editions have been sought. Included are volumes containing a single dramatic work, the collected plays or selections from the plays of a single author, and dramas appearing in anthologies or periodicals. Recent titles cataloged during the past year and held in the Drama Collection are included in this Guide."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved