TLA Annouces 2014 Book Award Winners!
The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2014.
The 2014 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Arnold Aronson for Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design, published by Theatre Communications Group.
The following works were 2014 finalists for the Freedley Award:
- Rick DesRochers, New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian, Palgrave Macmillan
- Jenna M. Gibbs, Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Stephen H. Grant, Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger, Johns Hopkins University Press
- John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Norton
- Paige McGinley, Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism, Duke University Press
The 2014 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance will be awarded to Mark Harris for Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, published by Penguin. A Special Jury Prize will be awarded to Scott Eyman for John Wayne: The Life and Legend, published by Simon and Schuster.
The following works were 2014 finalists for the Wall Award:
- Cecilia DeMille Presley and Mark A. Viera, Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic, Running Press
- J. E. Smyth, Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, University Press of Mississippi
- Eric Hoyt, Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video, University of California Press
- Federico Pacchioni, Inspiring Fellini: Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes, University of Toronto Press
The 2014 TLA Book Awards will be presented to the winners at a gala celebration in the Café of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City, at 6:30 PM on October 16, 2015. Additional event and registration information to follow.
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