The stages of age
Subtitle: performing age in contemporary American culture
By: Anne Davis Basting.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Older people -- United States.; Theater and older people -- United States.; Arts and older people -- United States.; Intergenerational relations -- United States.
Description: Although the mention of aging and old age all too often conjures notions of rigidity, decline, and invisibility, the very act of acting, of taking on a new role, can challenge and expand popular conceptions of later life. The first study of its kind, The Stages of Age looks at the aging actor and at aging as acting in a wide array of American performances that interrupt, transform, and underscore stereotypes of old age.

Anne Davis Basting argues that advancing age is an essential category that should not be overlooked in discussions of identity and difference.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acting your age : performance and performativity in an aging society; title: Feeling and being young : the Geritol Frolics; title: Radicalizing oral history : the Grandparents Living Theatre; title: Generations of change : Roots & Branches and Elders Share the Arts; title: Re-membering the living past in feminist theory : Suzannne Lacy's Crystal quilt; title: The body in depth : Kazuo Ohno's Water lilies; title: Screen-deep : the beauty of mortality in Margolis Brown's Vidpires!; title: Dolly descending a staircase : stardom, age, and gender in Times Square.