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The actor in costume / Aoife Monks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monks, Aoife.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Costume.
- Theater audiences.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Summary:
- "How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. The book considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the dress rehearsal
- Dressing rooms : the actor's body and costume
- Dressing the audience : a history of fashion at the theatre
- Re-dressing the actor : modernist costume
- Cross-dressing : authenticity and identity
- Undressing : the disappointments of nudity
- Dressing the immaterial : costume and the problem of ghosts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230216990
- 0230216994
- 9780230217003
- 0230217001
- OCLC:
- 471452164
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