Henry Bial
Biographic Data
| ID | 409206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Bial |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Bial |
| SIGNATURE | BIAL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4779-1850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
The Unbearable Whiteness of John Brown
John Brown is a figure so intensely contested as to embody diametrically opposed meanings according to the varied contexts in which his image has been activated. At times hailed as the man who started the US Civil War, Brown has been variously described as a righteous abolitionist, a religious zealot, a gifted orator, a formidable military strategist, a self-appointed white savior, and a madman. Today, Brown is conjured in the name of all manner …
Looking at/for Disappearing John Brown
Jew Media
“You know who else is Jewish?” is a question with a long history in American popular culture. How have contemporary forms of media distribution such as Web 2.0 changed the way American Jews ask and answer it? What does this mean for the performance of Jewish American identity
Acting Jewish
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood
Book Review| January 01 2005 From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, Paul Buhle. Henry Bial Henry Bial Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 127–129. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501581 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Yiddish Theatre
Reviewed by: Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches Henry Bial Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Edited by Joel Berkowitz. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003; pp. xiii + 269. $59.50 cloth. The claim of novelty runs throughout Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars of the genre, including (among others) Ahuva Belkin, Paola Bertolone, Leonard Prager, Seth L. Wolitz, Nahma Sandrow, and…
Books
March 01 2004 Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. By BerkowitzJoel Henry Bial Henry Bial Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Henry Bial Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of New Mexico Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN…
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood
Book Review| January 01 2005 From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, Paul Buhle. Henry Bial Henry Bial Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 127–129. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501581 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Books
March 01 2004 Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage. By BerkowitzJoel Henry Bial Henry Bial Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Henry Bial Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of New Mexico Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN…
Acting Jewish
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood
Book Review| January 01 2005 From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, Paul Buhle. Henry Bial Henry Bial Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 127–129. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501581 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Yiddish Theatre
Reviewed by: Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches Henry Bial Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Edited by Joel Berkowitz. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003; pp. xiii + 269. $59.50 cloth. The claim of novelty runs throughout Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars of the genre, including (among others) Ahuva Belkin, Paola Bertolone, Leonard Prager, Seth L. Wolitz, Nahma Sandrow, and…
Jew Media
“You know who else is Jewish?” is a question with a long history in American popular culture. How have contemporary forms of media distribution such as Web 2.0 changed the way American Jews ask and answer it? What does this mean for the performance of Jewish American identity
The Unbearable Whiteness of John Brown
John Brown is a figure so intensely contested as to embody diametrically opposed meanings according to the varied contexts in which his image has been activated. At times hailed as the man who started the US Civil War, Brown has been variously described as a righteous abolitionist, a religious zealot, a gifted orator, a formidable military strategist, a self-appointed white savior, and a madman. Today, Brown is conjured in the name of all manner …
Looking at/for Disappearing John Brown
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
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