Staging Age

The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film
Herausgeber: Lipscomb, Valerie; Marshall, L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Nature Singapore
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781349384976
• ISBN-10: 1349384976
• Artikelnr.: 45076825

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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