American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War

Bruce McConachie's "Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society 1820-1870" won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History.

In this study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment - what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside and a boundary between the two - as the dominant metaphor of Cold War theatre-going.