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Jennifer-Scott Mobley - Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress - 9781137430663 - V9781137430663
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Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress

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Description for Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137430663
SKU
V9781137430663
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Jennifer-Scott Mobley
Jennifer-Scott Mobley is Visiting Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Rollins College, USA.

Reviews for Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress
"Female Bodies on the American Stage pierces the heart of representational politics by parsing how body size influences reception. Mobley incisively analyzes the history of social judgments against larger than sylph-like women, and traces how size prohibitions play out in theatre, film, and television. Considering gender alongside race and ethnicity, Mobley elegantly unpacks the pernicious, ongoing policing of women's bodies, ... Read more

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