http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucr_chass_theatfilm_oapolicydeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production Open Access Policy Deposits Fri, 15 May 2026 01:09:24 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xg8b8fm Good Tidings Made Visible: Re-enactments of the Nativity from the Middle Ages to the Present. Lenke Kovács and Francesc Massip, eds. Problemata Literaria 90. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2020. xii + 312 pp. €43. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xg8b8fm Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Jaffe-Berg, Erith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-5197 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pj734cg La Mirtilla https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pj734cg Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Jaffe-Berg, Erith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-5197 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17c767p4 Costumes and Repurposing Fabrics across Religious and Theatrical Boundaries in Early Modern Mantua https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17c767p4 Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Jaffe-Berg, Erith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-5197 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zn2k7kc The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing by Serena Laiena (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zn2k7kc Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Jaffe-Berg, Erith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-5197 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dk6v530 “There’s something about the ‘S Word’ …”: acting on our impulses and analysing our actions https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dk6v530 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Merlin, Bella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8389f3t4 This side of reality: Stanislavsky in the 21st Century https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8389f3t4 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Merlin, B https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m27t6t7 Shakespeare & Company – merging the Bard with the Russian via two female Brits https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m27t6t7 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Merlin, Bella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bg763d9 Feeling Yellow: Responding to Contemporary Yellowface in Musical Performance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bg763d9 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Galella, Donatella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1349-1438 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c3203nh The two white male cosponsors, a Democrat and a Republican, dressed as King George and Hamilton, respectively, as they rapped the resolution in the state senate. InHamilton, chief creator Lin-Manuel Miranda stakes out space for an immigrant from the Caribbean who was in the room where the United States of America was founded. Based on Ron Chernow's biography,Hamiltonfollows the struggles and successes of Alexander Hamilton in a story largely told by his nemesis, Aaron Burr. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 2015 and subsequently moved to Broadway. With its Founders Chic historical approach, hip-hop aesthetic, and multiracial cast, this Broadway blockbuster has earned substantial commercial and critical acclaim from across the political spectrum. Former President Barack Obama joked, “Hamilton, I'm pretty sure, is the only thing Dick Cheney and I agree on.” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c3203nh Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Galella, Donatella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1349-1438 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cd8802d In early modern Italy, an unusual form of exchange between Jewish and Christian communities materialized in Mantua: Jews in Mantua were required to perform an annual play as a tribute to their Gonzaga rulers. Elsewhere in the Italian peninsula, far more onerous performances were extorted from the Jews during carnival, but in the Mantuan performances, several communities - the ruling Gonzaga family, the Jewish community, and Christian audience members - interacted. I consider these performances a form of taxation because the full cost, which was extensive, was borne by the Jewish community. However, the performances were more than mere payment; they also gave the Jewish community a degree of autonomy and expression and enabled performers to develop their artistic skills, albeit always as the members of the company of the Jews, a group that was set apart from the rest of society in early modern Mantua. These theatrical performances can be seen as a public reification of the Jewish... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cd8802d Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Jaffe-Berg, Erith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-5197 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nh272pm Redefining America, Arena Stage, and Territory Folks in a Multiracial Oklahoma! https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nh272pm Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Galella, Donatella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1349-1438