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Category Archives: Current Conversations

The “Current Conversations” tab seeks to make connections between Progressive-Era culture and current debates. Click on the links below to see how the topic of prostitution, and plays and films about it, find expression in our modern times.

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Salomania! The Salome Dance Craze

November 18, 2015by Kathleen Johnson

An analysis of the Salomania dance craze in early twentieth-century culture by Marlis Schweitzer.

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Current Conversations
O'Neill

The O’Neill Show

June 7, 2015by Kathleen Johnson

Katie N. Johnson, Beth Wynstra and Steve Bloom discuss Eugene O’Neill’s works on the Dan O’Neill Show. Aired 6/6/2015.  

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Current Conversations, Eugene O'Neill
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London revival of “Anna Christie” by Donmar Warehouse

June 4, 2015by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

London’s Donmar Warehouse’s 2011 revival of “Anna Christie,” featuring Jude Law and Ruth Wilson, achieved the ambiguity that O’Neill so fervently believed should define the play.  The story of a […]

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Current Conversations, Eugene O'Neill, Prostitution, Uncategorized
Katie Johnson on Set of Rediscovering Kate Carew

Rediscovering Kate Carew

December 11, 2014by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

                          Kate Carew was a reporter and caricaturist who reported on white slavery, among other topics, in 1910. […]

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Current Conversations, White Slavery
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Play a Hooker and Win an Oscar

December 9, 2014by Kathleen Johnson Leave a comment

                In this article, Bernard Weintraub notes that “the first Academy Award for best actress was given in 1928 to Janet Gaynor for her […]

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Current Conversations, Prostitution

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SEX FOR SALE: SIX PROGRESSIVE-ERA BROTHEL DRAMAS

Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900 – 1920

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