The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
ISBN: 978-0-230-62365-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
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.
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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
