Staging age: the performance of age in theatre, dance, and film

Staging age: the performance of age in theatre, dance, and film

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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 criticalfoundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, andanalyses. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: FILM - 'That Younger, Fresher Woman': Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood's Cult of Youth; H.Addison - The Unconsciousof 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 andthe Dance Artist; B.Dickinson - Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance; W.Oliver

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-62365-1
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 250
  • Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés