Female bodies on the american stage: enter fat actress
Auteur :
Mobley, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349492114
Date de publication :
18 déc. 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.