Female Bodies On The American Stage: Enter Fat Actress

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.

• • Author: J. Mobley
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Sep 04, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 251 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137430664
• • ISBN-13: 9781137430663