Female Bodies on the American Stage [electronic resource] : Enter Fat Actress /
Mobley, J.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Human body-Social aspects.
Sociology.
Theater-History.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Arts.
Theater.
Sociology of the Body.
Gender Studies.
Theatre History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.