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04461aam a2200613 i 4500 001 D50332949A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 201128s2021 kyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020053333 020 $a 0813180945 020 $a 9780813180946 035 $a (OCoLC)1190853602 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d HHO $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BKL $d OSZ $d B6U $d IVV $d JYJ $d OCLCA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a PN2041.W37 $b M38 2021 082 00 $a 809.2/93581 $2 23 100 1 $a McLaughlin, Robert L., $d 1957-2022, $e author. 245 10 $a Broadway goes to war : $b American theater during World War II / $c Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry. 264 1 $a Lexington, Kentucky : $b The University Press of Kentucky, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 290 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index. 505 0 $a Popular culture, Broadway, and World War II -- Before Pearl Harbor -- Overseas -- The home front -- Anticipating the postwar world -- Appendix: Annotated list of war-related plays produced in New York, 1933-1946. 520 $a "In Broadway Goes to War, Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry analyze how American theater actively addressed and debated timely and controversial topics during World War II. Productions such as Watch on the Rhine (1941), The Moon is Down (1942), Tomorrow the World (1943), and A Bell for Adano (1944) encouraged public discussion of the war's impact on daily life and raised critical topics about the conflict well before other forms of popular media. McLaughlin and Parry reveal that while film studios, radio stations, newspapers, and other media outlets widely chose to echo official government communications and opinions regarding Nazi Germany and the war, Broadway remained stunningly independent. In the absence of pressure from the US Office of War Information or an industry-based agency like Hollywood's Hayes Office, the New York stage became an important venue for debating topics that would have been considered taboo on a film set, including neutrality and isolationism, racism and genocide, and heroism and battle fatigue. American drama of the 1940s is frequently overlooked, but the plays performed during this eventful decade provide a picture of the rich and complex experience of living in the US during the war years. McLaughlin and Parry's work fills a significant gap in the history of theater and popular culture, showing that American society was more divided and less idealistic than the received histories of the WWII home front and the entertainment industry recognized"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Theater and the war. 650 0 $a War and theater $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American drama $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z United States $x Literature and the war. 650 0 $a Theater $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Theater and society $z United States. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $x TheÌaÌtre et guerre. 650 6 $a Guerre et theÌaÌtre $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a TheÌaÌtre ameÌricain $y 20e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $z EÌtats-Unis $x LitteÌrature et guerre. 650 6 $a TheÌaÌtre et socieÌteÌ $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a Culture populaire $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a American drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806998 650 7 $a Popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071344 650 7 $a Theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149217 650 7 $a Theater and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149315 650 7 $a War and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170442 650 7 $a War and theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01736385 651 7 $a New York (State) $z New York. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Parry, Sally E., $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014748.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D50332949A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search