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Female bodies on the American stage : enter fat actress / Jennifer-Scott Mobley.
Van Pelt Library PN2293.C38 M63 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mobley, Jennifer-Scott, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Casting--United States.
- Theater.
- Body image in the theater--United States.
- Body image in the theater.
- Actresses--United States--Social conditions.
- Actresses.
- Overweight women in literature.
- Overweight women--United States.
- Overweight women.
- Social conditions.
- Theater--Casting.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Fat, especially the fat female body, is a unique construction within American culture. It has been understood and "read" in a variety of ways in popular representation during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws from theatre, performance, and cultural studies, as well as feminist methodologies and the emerging field of fat studies, Mobley interrogates common stereotypes and complex cultural beliefs associated with the fat female in performance, particularly in light of the so-called "obesity epidemic" in the United States. Analyzing a cross-section of post-WWII American plays, stage, and screen performances, as well as performers' bodies as cultural texts, she argues that the fat actress's body signals a myriad of (primarily negative and/or threatening) cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The body as a cultural text
- Fat dramaturgies. Fat center stage
- Fat love stories
- Monsters, man eaters, and fat behavior
- Fat subjectivities. Bodies violating boundaries
- Fat black miscegenation
- Queering fat
- Fat-face minstrelsy
- Reclaiming fat. Dangerous curves
- Enter fat actress.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137430663
- 1137430664
- OCLC:
- 881498520
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