John M Clum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1020941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Clum |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Clum |
| SIGNATURE | CLUM J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2078-9515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story
Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century musicals and stands as a colossus of musical and dramatic achievement. It not only helped define a generation of musical theatre lovers but is among the handful of shows that have contributed to our understanding of American musical identity at mid-century. Bringing together contemporary scholars in music, theatre, dance, literatu…
Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater
Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in The American Theater by Jordan Schildcrout (review)
The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren Hoffman (review)
Reviewed by: The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren Hoffman John M. Clum The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical. By Warren Hoffman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014; pp. 264. Throughout its history, the American musical has been inextricably linked to issues of race: from minstrel shows, to blackface performers like Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, to the appropriation of African American musical form…
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein , and: Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein (review)
Reviewed by: Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, and: Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein John M. Clum Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein. By Julie Salamon. New York: Penguin Books, 2011; pp. 480. Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein. By Jan Balakian. New York: Applause Books, 2010; pp. 244. Wendy Wasserstein burst onto the New York theatre scene in 1977 with Uncommon Women and Others…
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber , and: Off-Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More tha…
Reviewed by: Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, and: Off-Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More than 1,800 Shows, and: "No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance": A History of the American Musical Theater, and: Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers John M. Clum Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Bo…
American Drama: The Bastard Art
Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Opera without Queens/ Queens without Opera
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Preface and acknowledgements List of contributors List of topical entries Introduction Alphabetical entries Bibliography Biographical index
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Acting Gay is a series of close readings of the central works of gay male drama written by American and English playwrights. The plays discussed reflect transformations of gay men in 20th-century British and American societies. Part 1 concerns the presentation of the physical aspects of homosexuality, from nudity to drag to AIDS, and their relationship to the norms of the society the audience represents. The second section surveys dramas written …
The Time before the War: Aids, Memory, and Desire
TN a gay culture now rightfully obsessed with a killer plague, remembering becomes a central act, and it is how and what one remembers that defines much of AIDS literature, art, and film. That focus on memory is a central feature of the landscape described by AIDS-age gay writers, a wasteland in which memory and desire are poignantly intertwined. But what is remembered in this barren land in which love has become death is not the neurasthenic dry…
A Culture That Isn't Just Sexual: Dramatizing Gay Male History
In recent talk, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined potential alternative canon of lesbian and gay male writing as a literature of oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making.l Oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making are the stuff of gay history, and much of what can be called gay drama is an expression of what might be called the historical impulse in gay literature-depicting and defining the collective past of gay men to…
Something Cloudy, Something Clear: Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams
Research Article| January 01 1989 “Something Cloudy, Something Clear”: Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 161–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; “Something Cloudy, Something Clear”: Homophobic …
The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film by Bernard F. Dick
Book Review| October 01 1986 The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film by Bernard F. Dick The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. By Dick, Bernard F.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. Pp. ix, 294. $26.00. John M. Clum John M. Clum Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (4): 389–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-4-389 Ci…
The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry
Second revised edition of a collection of essays which provide a study of American gay male poetry
Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall
Book Review| July 01 1978 Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall Literature as Opera. By Schmidgall, Gary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 435. $15.95. John Clum John Clum Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (3): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-3-380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for God in a Godless World
Research Article| October 01 1978 Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for God in a Godless World John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (4): 418–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-4-418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for G…
The Political Stage: American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression
Ridgely Torrence's Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning
Research Article| January 01 1969 Ridgely Torrence’s Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 96–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-1-96 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; Ridgely Torrence’s Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Ja…
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
The Time before the War: Aids, Memory, and Desire
TN a gay culture now rightfully obsessed with a killer plague, remembering becomes a central act, and it is how and what one remembers that defines much of AIDS literature, art, and film. That focus on memory is a central feature of the landscape described by AIDS-age gay writers, a wasteland in which memory and desire are poignantly intertwined. But what is remembered in this barren land in which love has become death is not the neurasthenic dry…
A Culture That Isn't Just Sexual: Dramatizing Gay Male History
In recent talk, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined potential alternative canon of lesbian and gay male writing as a literature of oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making.l Oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making are the stuff of gay history, and much of what can be called gay drama is an expression of what might be called the historical impulse in gay literature-depicting and defining the collective past of gay men to…
Ridgely Torrence's Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning
Research Article| January 01 1969 Ridgely Torrence’s Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 96–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-1-96 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; Ridgely Torrence’s Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Ja…
The Political Stage: American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression
Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall
Book Review| July 01 1978 Literature as Opera by Gary Schmidgall Literature as Opera. By Schmidgall, Gary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 435. $15.95. John Clum John Clum Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (3): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-3-380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for God in a Godless World
Research Article| October 01 1978 Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for God in a Godless World John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (4): 418–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-4-418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; Religion and Five Contemporary Plays: The Quest for G…
The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry
Second revised edition of a collection of essays which provide a study of American gay male poetry
The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film by Bernard F. Dick
Book Review| October 01 1986 The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film by Bernard F. Dick The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. By Dick, Bernard F.. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. Pp. ix, 294. $26.00. John M. Clum John M. Clum Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (4): 389–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-4-389 Ci…
A Culture That Isn't Just Sexual: Dramatizing Gay Male History
In recent talk, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined potential alternative canon of lesbian and gay male writing as a literature of oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making.l Oppression and resistance and survival and heroic making are the stuff of gay history, and much of what can be called gay drama is an expression of what might be called the historical impulse in gay literature-depicting and defining the collective past of gay men to…
Something Cloudy, Something Clear: Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams
Research Article| January 01 1989 “Something Cloudy, Something Clear”: Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams John M. Clum John M. Clum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 161–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Clum; “Something Cloudy, Something Clear”: Homophobic …
The Time before the War: Aids, Memory, and Desire
TN a gay culture now rightfully obsessed with a killer plague, remembering becomes a central act, and it is how and what one remembers that defines much of AIDS literature, art, and film. That focus on memory is a central feature of the landscape described by AIDS-age gay writers, a wasteland in which memory and desire are poignantly intertwined. But what is remembered in this barren land in which love has become death is not the neurasthenic dry…
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Acting Gay is a series of close readings of the central works of gay male drama written by American and English playwrights. The plays discussed reflect transformations of gay men in 20th-century British and American societies. Part 1 concerns the presentation of the physical aspects of homosexuality, from nudity to drag to AIDS, and their relationship to the norms of the society the audience represents. The second section surveys dramas written …
Opera without Queens/ Queens without Opera
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Preface and acknowledgements List of contributors List of topical entries Introduction Alphabetical entries Bibliography Biographical index
Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
American Drama: The Bastard Art
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber , and: Off-Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More tha…
Reviewed by: Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, and: Off-Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More than 1,800 Shows, and: "No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance": A History of the American Musical Theater, and: Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers John M. Clum Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Bo…
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein , and: Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein (review)
Reviewed by: Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, and: Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein John M. Clum Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein. By Julie Salamon. New York: Penguin Books, 2011; pp. 480. Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein. By Jan Balakian. New York: Applause Books, 2010; pp. 244. Wendy Wasserstein burst onto the New York theatre scene in 1977 with Uncommon Women and Others…
The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren Hoffman (review)
Reviewed by: The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren Hoffman John M. Clum The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical. By Warren Hoffman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014; pp. 264. Throughout its history, the American musical has been inextricably linked to issues of race: from minstrel shows, to blackface performers like Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, to the appropriation of African American musical form…
Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in The American Theater by Jordan Schildcrout (review)
Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater
The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story
Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century musicals and stands as a colossus of musical and dramatic achievement. It not only helped define a generation of musical theatre lovers but is among the handful of shows that have contributed to our understanding of American musical identity at mid-century. Bringing together contemporary scholars in music, theatre, dance, literatu…
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