TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,Michael
TI  - Broadway and corporate capitalism: the rise of the professional-managerial class, 1900-1920 
T2  - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
SN  - 9781349380046
AV  - PN2277.N5 S37 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Theater management
KW  - Class consciousness
KW  - American drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Class consciousness in literature
N1  - K_B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: a matter for experts -- The growth of Broadway, the emergence of the PMC -- Brave New York : nowhere to go but up -- The show business -- Who were the PMC? -- Meet the experts -- Where the actors stood : the actors' strike -- The problem of nerves -- Dim shadows : pre-PMC consciousness -- Modern men and modern nerves -- Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, super expert -- Fitch and the psychological moment -- Neurasthenics caught on Kodak -- Muckraking the playing field : emerging PMC class consciousness -- The freshest kids in town -- Fair play : The college widow, Strongheart, and Brown of Harvard -- Sweepings from the muckrakes : The lion and the mouse -- Strikers, gentlemen, and toughs : The boss -- A size thirteen collar : musicals and PMC class consciousness -- The musical : pre-post-mortem -- The providences of God : The Sultan of Sulu -- Musicals grow up for a moment : the princess shows -- Showing a class how to move : the castles -- System and farce : emerging PMC habitus -- Cohan as super model, positive and negative -- F.W. Taylor : a scientific call for PMC -- Losing and making a fortune : Brewster's millions -- Grant Mitchell : PMC poster boy -- Humbugging prelude : Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford -- Mitchell on the rise : it pays to advertise -- PMC apotheosis : a tailor-made man -- Conclusion : business as usual -- Clarence : leading the U.S. safely into the 1920s -- Freud and the PMC -- O'Neill and psychological capital -- Other cures for nerves : a look at the 1920s -- Postscript : the return of the tailor-made man
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