Performing Arts Resources
Theatre Library Association's monograph series, Performing Arts Resources features articles on resource materials in the fields of theatre, popular entertainment, film, television and radio, information on public and private collections, and essays on conservation and collection management of theatre arts materials. PAR also publishes rare historical documents and out-of-print works that might otherwise be lost to theatre scholarship.
PAR is published on an irregular schedule, and distributed to all members of TLA as a benefit of membership. Copies of the current and most past volumes can be purchased from TLA. Personal and institutional members receive a $10 discount.
Full text articles from current volumes and many past volumes of PAR are available in HTML format in International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text and International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text. Check with your library to find out if it subscribes to these databases.
ISSN: 0360-3814
Current Volume
PAR 28
A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective
Essays Dedicated to Brooks McNamara
Edited by Stephen Johnson
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-932610-24-9
Description: Paperback, xiii, 353 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Non-Member Price: $30
TLA Member Price: $20
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Cover collage images: From Stoglav (Resolutions of the Moscow Council of 1551), chapter 41, question 19 (Archive of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, MS No. 215, section of folio 127 verso); Wenceslaus Hollar, "A View from St. Mary's, Southwark, Looking towards Westminster" c. 1638 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection); An entry in John B. Gough's personal account book, indicating he purchased "tickets to museum" on March 16, 1844 (Courtesy if American Antiquarian Society); Broadside for Hot Corn, National Theatre, New York, 1854 (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library); The Poor of ____, p2, c. (British Library Board, Add. 53029.O, f.2); 'Ricksecker's Dentaroma' (courtesy of Dr. Harold Kanthor, original held in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester); Still shots captured by Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin from the1901 film Laughing Ben (Reproduced courtesy of the Library of Congress); Aida Overton Walker photograph circa 1910 by White Studio, NY (Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts); Tombstone in Mount Carmel Cemetery for "The Only Leon" (Photo taken in August 2006 by Heather May); LC Authority Card for the author William DuBois.
Contents:
- Don B. Wilmeth. Forward—Brooks McNamara: Master of the Archive, or What Really Matters
- John Wesley Hill. "Band of Up to a Hundred Skomorokhi": Rethinking Stoglav 41:19
- Virginia Scott. Who Was Robert Tripluplart L'andouiller? Or, An Actors' Quarrel in Late Sixteenth-Century Paris
- Tim Fitzpatrick. Pursuing Hollar's Sketch of the Second Globe Playhouse
- Jeanne Bovet. Pointless Clues? Reviving Declamation Through the Punctuation of Jean Racine's Phèdre et Hippolyte (Paris: Barbin, 1677)
- Nena Couch. Choreography and Cholera: The Extended Life of Dance Notation
- Daniel Smith. Le Bordel and L'Art De F*****: Confounding Clues on Title Pages
- Paul J. Stoesser. Determining Whether the Český Krumlov Slapstick is "Just the Thing" or "Just a Thing"
- Mark Evans Bryan. A Femme Fatale of Eighteenth-Century American Theatre Research: Reading William Bradford's Cato Letter
- Annette Fern. Clues in the Caricature: The Case of "The Prospect Before Us"
- Amy Muse. Portrait of a Lady Hamlet
- Amy E. Hughes. John B. Gough's Afternoon at the Theatre; or, the Tyranny of an Account Book
- John W. Frick. Lost! Or, What To Do When Your Principal Primary Document is Missing
- Marlis Schweitzer. Barnum's Last Laugh? General Tom Thumb's Wedding Cake in the Library of Congress
- Justin A. Blum. Adaptation, Copyright, and the Case of Dion Boucicault's The Poor Of ____
- Heather Davis-Fisch. Aglooka's Ghost: Apparitions in the Archive
- David Mayer. Riding for a Fall: A Saddle For Mazeppa's Fiery Steed
- Andrea Harris. The Phantom Dancer, or, the Case of the Mysterious Toe Shoe int he Frontier Prop Closet
- Eileen Curley. "A Most Dreadful Position": Amateur Reputations in a Professional World
- Joseph Donohue. Oscar Wilde's Ground Plan for a Productionof Salomé
- Eric Colleary. A Queer Victorian Marriage: Henry Blake Fuller's At Saint Judas's and the "Tyranny" of the Archival Document
- Chase Bringardner. Fixing the Fix: Medicine Show Trading Cards and the Slipperiness of Souvenirs in the Archive
- Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. The Silent Laugh of Laughing Ben
- Matthew Solomon. With Houdini in the Margins of Theatre History: On the Trail of the Mysterious Browning
- Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Four Exhibitions and a Data Base: Reading a White Studio Photograph of AIda Overton Walker
- Heather May. White Lies and Stony Silence: Reconstruction in the Personal Narrative of America's Most Popular Female Impersonator on the Minstrel Stage
- Robert Crane. The Performance Historian as Cold Case Detective: Reopening Nikolai L'vov's Investigation of the Blue Blouse Movement
- Thomas Postlewait. the MUltiple Editions of Ellen Terry's Autobiography
- Ann Folino White. Page 48: Vaudeville of a Historian
- Shannon Rose Riley. Mistaken Identities, Miscegenation, & MIssing Origins: The Curious Case of Haiti
- Paula Sperdakos. Good Stories and Closed Subjects: Ida Van Cortland and the Great Chicago Fire
- Andrew Ryder. Doing Tennessee Justice in Oregon
- Dan Venning. Minstrelsy as White Americana: Kurt Weill's "Notes on the Minstrel Show"
- Julie Vogt. "Me Tondalayo": The Burlesque Politics of Mammy Palaver
- Michael Shane Boyle. Aura and The Archive: Confronting the Incendiary Fliers of Kommune 1
- Rebecca Harries. A Skull with WIngs: Meaning and Mourning in a Theatre Lobby
- Brian Cook. "They Might Not Go Blind": Cherub's Kinsmen and the Drama Officer's Report
- Mark David Turner. The Tyranny of Absence: One Account of Archival Practice at the Fringe of the State
- Andrew Brown. A Queer Memory: Guilt, Disappearance, and the Youtube "Archive"
- Odai Johnson. Afterword—Scarred Texts: Etudes on Absence
Forthcoming Volumes
PAR 29
Documenting: Scenic Design
Edited by John Calhoun
Expected Publication Date: 2012
PAR 30
An as-of-yet untitled volume on the history of TLA and performing arts librarianship on the occasion of TLA's 75th anniversary
Edited by Marti LoMonaco and David Nochimson
Expected Publication Date: 2013
Past Volumes
Performing Arts Resources Volumes, 1974-Current
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- PAR 20-28: $30/ea.
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TLA members receive a $10 discount on the purchase of all available PAR volumes. Send a check for the correct amount in U.S. funds (there is no additional charge for postage) made out to THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION and a completed TLA member order form to:
Theatre Library Association
c/o The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
USA
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Last updated: January 31, 2012