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Mason, Jeffrey Daniel was born on August 30, 1952 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Lawrence Albert and Nancy Lavinia Mason.
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COUSIN JACK.
(1996 SOFTCOVER edition from Alexander Associates. Cover s...)
1996 SOFTCOVER edition from Alexander Associates. Cover shows picture of Cousin Jack. 419 pages from Alexawnder Associates. From Granny
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Melodrama and the Myth of America (Drama and Performance Studies)
(This book studies how popular theater can act as the vehi...)
This book studies how popular theater can act as the vehicle for the construction of American ideology. It looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in "American life: Metamora and the Indian Question", "The Drunkard and the temperance movement", "Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery", "My Partner and the American West", and "Shenandoah and the Civil War". By examining the plays and their popular success and by reconstructing the social and political backdrop against which they were viewed, Mason shows how they functioned in the social discourse of the time. They were, he argues, expressions of what Americans wanted other Americans, and the world at large, to believe that they believed about America as such. Although acts of communal belief in, or affirmation of, certain cultural myths, these melodramas were acted out on the contested stage of American ideological debate. They show mainstream America's attempt to grapple with the key social issues of the day and to stage the dramatic emergence of the American myth.
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Jeffrey Daniel Mason
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Jeffrey Daniel Mason, American Theater educator. Certified stage combatant in armed and unarmed techniques, 1983. Pearl Hickman fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1980, 82-83, California state fellow in education, 1974-1975; grantee Committee on Teaching, University of California, Berkeley, 1981, California State University, Bakersfield University Research Council, 1988-1989.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in English and Music, Stanford University, 1974; Master of Arts in Education, Stanford University, 1975; Master of Arts in Drama, California State University, Sacramento, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy in Dramatic Art, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Career
Associate instructor dramatic art, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1982; instructor performing arts, Diablo Valley College, 1982; lecturer theatre arts, artistic director Madrigal Dinner, San Francisco State University, 1983-1984; lecturer theatre, California State University, Bakersfield, 1984-1985; assistant professor, California State University, Bakersfield, 1985-1987; associate professor, California State University, Bakersfield, 1987-1992; professor, California State University, Bakersfield, since 1992; chair fine arts department, California State University, Bakersfield, since 1991. Artistic director Kern Art Theatre, Bakersfield, since 1985.
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Melodrama and the Myth of America (Drama and Performance Studies)
(This book studies how popular theater can act as the vehi...)
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COUSIN JACK.
(1996 SOFTCOVER edition from Alexander Associates. Cover s...)
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Melodrama and the Myth of America (Drama and Performance Studies)
Membership
Member of the board Foothill Theatre Company, Nevada City. Member American Studies Association, American Theatre and Drama Society (member board 1991-1995), American Society Theatre Research, Association Theatre in Higher Education.
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Married Susan Sefton, August 4, 1979. 1 child, Ashley Siobhan.
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Pearl Hickman fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1980, 82-83, California state fellow in education, 1974-1975. Grantee Committee on Teaching, University of California, Berkeley, 1981, California State University, Bakersfield University Research Council, 1988-1989.Pearl Hickman fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1980, 82-83, California state fellow in education, 1974-1975. Grantee Committee on Teaching, University of California, Berkeley, 1981, California State University, Bakersfield University Research Council, 1988-1989.