Richard Fotheringham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5160955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Fotheringham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Fotheringham |
| SIGNATURE | FOTHERINGHAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Autobiography as publicity
The terms used have specialised usages in the entertainment industry, though not without dispute.The contortionist Valantyne Napier argued in her memoir, Act as Known: Australian Speciality Acts on the World Vaudeville/Variety Circuits from 1900 to 1960 (Melbourne: Globe, 1986), that 'vaudeville' was a high-class form of live entertainment consisting purely of a sequence of unconnected demonstrations of skill (jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists,…
Script of 'Louis XI' – Addendum
Laughing it Off
This article investigates the extensive use of Great War material on the variety stage in Australia, particularly in the decade of the 1920s. It surveys jokes reported in newspapers or surviving in scripts; examines in detail the work of the best known of the ‘diggers’ companies of returned servicemen, Pat Hanna’s Famous Diggers, as well as the work of other performers including the acclaimed comedian Jim Gerald and several ex-soldier drag artist…
Speaking a New World
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances …
Arthur Hoey Davis and Several ‘Steele Rudds’
Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, â Steele Ruddâ , and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms
Laughing it Off
This article investigates the extensive use of Great War material on the variety stage in Australia, particularly in the decade of the 1920s. It surveys jokes reported in newspapers or surviving in scripts; examines in detail the work of the best known of the ‘diggers’ companies of returned servicemen, Pat Hanna’s Famous Diggers, as well as the work of other performers including the acclaimed comedian Jim Gerald and several ex-soldier drag artist…
Arthur Hoey Davis and Several ‘Steele Rudds’
Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, â Steele Ruddâ , and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances …
Speaking a New World
Laughing it Off
This article investigates the extensive use of Great War material on the variety stage in Australia, particularly in the decade of the 1920s. It surveys jokes reported in newspapers or surviving in scripts; examines in detail the work of the best known of the ‘diggers’ companies of returned servicemen, Pat Hanna’s Famous Diggers, as well as the work of other performers including the acclaimed comedian Jim Gerald and several ex-soldier drag artist…
Script of 'Louis XI' – Addendum
Autobiography as publicity
The terms used have specialised usages in the entertainment industry, though not without dispute.The contortionist Valantyne Napier argued in her memoir, Act as Known: Australian Speciality Acts on the World Vaudeville/Variety Circuits from 1900 to 1960 (Melbourne: Globe, 1986), that 'vaudeville' was a high-class form of live entertainment consisting purely of a sequence of unconnected demonstrations of skill (jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists,…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)