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: Dec 18, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 251 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1349492116
• | ISBN-13: 9781349492114