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A Place for Us: “West Side Story” and New York
Julia L. Foulkes
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Description for A Place for Us: “West Side Story” and New York
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; APF; AVGM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment a crowning jewel of postwar ... Read more
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment a crowning jewel of postwar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226301808
SKU
V9780226301808
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About Julia L. Foulkes
Julia L. Foulkes is professor of history at the New School in New York and the author of Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey and To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal.
Reviews for A Place for Us: “West Side Story” and New York
Foulkes's approach is chronological, but this is no pedantic march through time. Rather it is a fascinating read focusing equally on the show and the world into which it was born. . . . . Essential.
Choice A Place for Us tells a new story about one of US theater's most important plays. A skillful historian, Julia Foulkes delves ... Read more
Choice A Place for Us tells a new story about one of US theater's most important plays. A skillful historian, Julia Foulkes delves ... Read more