Table of Contents
The Imperial Aesthetic of the Ancient Roman Pantomime
The Shift from Dance to Pantomime
The Pantomime Performance Scene
Combinations of Aesthetic Variables
Pantomime Musical Accompaniment
Rhythmic Features of the Accompaniment
The Pantomime Performance Program
Pantomime Performance in Theaters
Pantomime Innovation and Aristocratic Competition
Roman Politics and Pantomime Evolution
Consequences of the Pantomime Riots
Pantomime and Religious Procession
Pantomime and Political Affiliations
The Performance of Imperial Ideology
The Expansion of Imperial Control
The Merging of the Pantomime and Chariot Racing Factions
Summary of Pantomime’s Evolution in the Roman Empire
The Disappearance of Pantomime in the West
The Ideological Shift from Performer-Driven to Text-Driven Performance
The Shift from Oblivion to Paris
The English Experiment with Dumb Shows
Pantomime in the Shadow of Ballet
French Pantomime Adapts to State Power
Diderot and Rousseau: How Pantomime Embodies Ideology
Vienna and Semiramis: Pantomime Turns Serious
Pantomime Provokes Theoretical Disputes
Pantomime Outside the Commedia Model
Pantomime and the French Revolution
Non-French (Female) Experiments in Pantomime
Pantomime Noire: The Cercle Funambulesque
The Technologization of Pantomime
American Women Exert Influence on Pantomime
Blurring of Distinction between Dance and Pantomime
Film Transforms the Partnership of Music and Pantomime
Parisian Pantomime without Pierrot
Max Reinhardt: Pantomimic Grandeur
Varieties of the Austro-German Pantomimic Imagination
Literary Pantomime and German Silent Film
Pantomime: A European Emblem of Modernity
The Pantomime Eclipse of the 1930s
Das goldene Pferd (1930) and the Impact of Sound Film on Pantomime
The Hibernation of Pantomime in Paris
Perverse Pantomime Fantasies in Nazi Germany
Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise)
The Spread of the Mime Culture
Pantomime in Cold War Eastern Europe
French Pantomime in East Germany
The Latvian and Lithuanian Ventures
Gendered Perspectives on Modernist Pantomime
Other Women from the Stuttgart Performing Arts Academy
The Extinction of the Pantomimic Literary Imagination
The London International Mime Festival
Pantomime and Postmodern Performance
Hartmut Vollmer’s Didactic Response to Postmodernism
Karl Toepfer 