Lipscomb / Marshall Staging Age

The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-11005-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection

This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipscomb, Valerie

Marshall, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: FILM 'That Younger, Fresher Woman': Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood's Cult of Youth; H.Addison The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film and Popular Culture; E.A.Kaplan Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre; N.King PART II: THEATRE Performing Female Age in Shakespeare's Plays; J.Hill & V.B.Lipscomb Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors' Bodies in Theatrical Media; J.Klein 'What Age Am I Now? And I?': The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett's Plays; R.Pe Palileo Molière's Miser, Old Age, and Potency; A.Wood PART III: DANCE Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance; J.Berson Age and the Dance Artist; B.Dickinson Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance; W.Oliver

Über Autor(innen)

Author Valerie Barnes Lipscomb: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA.