Staging Age [electronic resource] : The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film /
Lipscomb, Valerie.editor.
Marshall, L.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Film. "That younger, fresher woman" : old wives for new (1918) and Hollywood's  cult of youth / by Heather Addison -- The unconscious of age : performances in psychoanalysis, film and popular culture / by E.  Ann Kaplan -- Old cops : occupational aging in a film genre / by Neal King -- Theatre. Performing female age in Shakespeare's plays / by Janet Hill and Valerie Barnes Lipscomb -- Mediating childhood : how child spectators interpret actors' bodies in theatrical media / by Jeanne Klein -- "What age am I now? And I?  : the science of the aged voice in Beckett's plays / by Ruth Pe Palileo -- Moliere's Miser, old age, and potency / by Allen Wood -- Dance. Old dogs, new tricks : intergenerational dance /  by Jessica Berson -- Age and the dance artist / by Barbara Dickinson -- Still tapping after all these years : age and respect in tap dance / by Wendy Oliver.
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.
Theater—History.
Theater.
Dance.
Theatre History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Dance.