114 records matched your query
03469aam a2200397 i 4500 001 7D87D5509E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231219010058 008 230320t20232023miu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2023934620 020 $a 9780472056446 020 $a 0472056441 020 $a 9780472076444 020 $a 0472076442 035 $a (OCoLC)1372547985 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ESR $d OCLCO $e rda $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 100 1 $a Grinenko, Aleksei, $e author. 245 10 $a Seriously mad : $b mental distress and the Broadway musical / $c Aleksei Grinenko. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor, Michigan : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 271 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 3 $a Theatermakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. During the Broadway musical's "golden age," creative teams used the currently in-vogue psychoanalytic ideas about mental life to construct troubled characters at odds with themselves and their worlds. As the clinical and cultural profile of madness transformed over the twentieth century, musicals continued to delve into the experience of those living with mental pain, trauma, and unhappiness. Seriously Mad offers a dynamic account of stage musicals' engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States. By exploring who is considered mad and what constitutes madness at different moments in U.S. history, Aleksei Grinenko shows how, in attempts to bring the musicals closer to "highbrow" sophistication, theater dramatized serious medical conditions and social problems. Among the many Broadway productions discussed are "Next to Normal," "A Strange Loop" "Sweeney Todd," "Man of La Mancha," "Dear World," "Anyone Can Whistle," "Gypsy," "Oklahoma!," and "Lady in the Dark." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. 505 0 $a Part one. Madness in the mind. "Make a date with a great psychoanalyst..." : gazing inward in the dual golden age -- "Make up your mind! Make up your mind!" : the neurotic interior and the dynamic unconscious in the 1940s and beyond -- Part two. Madness in society. "There are heroes in the world..." : psychiatric activism, antipsychiatry, and political consciousness -- "To dream the impossible dream..." : communities of madness in the musicals of the long sixties -- 505 8 $a "Is that just disgusting?" : filth, madness, and the city in Sweeney Todd and other musicals -- Part three. Madness in the brain. "What a lovely cure!" : staging the interior in the new age of diagnostic psychiatry -- "Sing a song of forgetting..." : listening to the unconscious in Next to normal -- Conclusion. Contemporary visions of madness as depth theater, 650 0 $a Musicals $z New York $z New York $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Mental illness in theater. 650 0 $a Mental illness $v Drama $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Mental illness in music. 650 7 $a Mental illness in music $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896245 650 7 $a Musicals $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030814 651 7 $a New York (State) $z New York $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219013444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7D87D5509E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search