Female Bodies on the American Stage

Enter Fat Actress

J. Mobley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-49211-4 (ISBN)

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The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.

Jennifer-Scott Mobley is Visiting Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Rollins College, USA.

Introduction 1. The Body as a Cultural Text PART I: FAT DRAMATURGIES 2. Fat Center Stage 3. Fat Love Stories 4. Monsters, Man-eaters, and Fat Behavior PART II: FAT SUBJECTIVITIES 5. Bodies Violating Boundaries 6. Fat Black Miscegenation 7. Queering Fat 8. Fat-Face Minstrelsy PART III: RECLAIMING FAT 9. Dangerous Curves 10. Enter Fat Actress

Erscheinungsdatum	30.06.2020
Zusatzinfo	XII, 239 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Culture • Nation • stage
ISBN-10	1-349-49211-6 / 1349492116
ISBN-13	978-1-349-49211-4 / 9781349492114
Zustand	Neuware