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Book Title
Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress
Publication Date
2014-09-04
ISBN
9781137430663
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
1137430664
ISBN-13
9781137430663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201705163

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
Xii, 239 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Female Bodies on the American Stage : Enter Fat Actress
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Women, Theater / History & Criticism, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Jennifer-Scott Mobley
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
147.7 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-008960
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Female Bodies on the American Stage pierces the heart of representational politics by parsing how body size influences reception. Mobley incisively analyzes the history of social judgments against larger than sylph-like women, and traces how size prohibitions play out in theatre, film, and television. Considering gender alongside race and ethnicity, Mobley elegantly unpacks the pernicious, ongoing policing of women's bodies, and persuasively illustrates the complicity of cultural production in enforcing impossible, demeaning standards for normative beauty." - Jill Dolan, Professor of English, Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University, US "Desired and deified in earlier epochs for their curvaceous and voluptuous figures, statuesque female performers have become, over the course of the twentieth century, reviled and vilified, reduced to stock characters, and a panoply of gross stereotypes. Interrogating the rise of fat prejudice, Mobley reads the bodies of 'broad broads' as embodied cultural texts within and against a backdrop of material abundance and capitalist excess, American self-determination, and Puritan morality. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions of corpulence." - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Theatre, Cornell University, USA "[Mobley's] analyses are sharp and insightful and her use of canonical cultural and fat studies theorists . . . is capable and convincing. More than that, the book is interesting and fun. Mobley argues the importance of textual analyses of popular cultural texts . . . This book amply contributes to feminist cultural and fat studies conversations about the implications and effects of mediated representations of fat, feminine bodies and performances." - Fat Studies, "Female Bodies on the American Stage pierces the heart of representational politics by parsing how body size influences reception. Mobley incisively analyzes the history of social judgments against larger than sylph-like women, and traces how size prohibitions play out in theatre, film, and television. Considering gender alongside race and ethnicity, Mobley elegantly unpacks the pernicious, ongoing policing of women's bodies, and persuasively illustrates the complicity of cultural production in enforcing impossible, demeaning standards for normative beauty." - Jill Dolan, Professor of English, Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University, US "Desired and deified in earlier epochs for their curvaceous and voluptuous figures, statuesque female performers have become, over the course of the twentieth century, reviled and vilified, reduced to stock characters, and a panoply of gross stereotypes. Interrogating the rise of fat prejudice, Mobley reads the bodies of 'broad broads' as embodied cultural texts within and against a backdrop of material abundance and capitalist excess, American self-determination, and Puritan morality. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions of corpulence." - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Theatre, Cornell University, USA
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.02/80820973
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. The Body as a Cultural Text PART I: FAT DRAMATURGIES 2. Fat Center Stage 3. Fat Love Stories 4. Monsters, Man-eaters, and Fat Behavior PART II: FAT SUBJECTIVITIES 5. Bodies Violating Boundaries 6. Fat Black Miscegenation 7. Queering Fat 8. Fat-Face Minstrelsy PART III: RECLAIMING FAT 9. Dangerous Curves 10. Enter Fat Actress
Synopsis
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., Fat, especially the fat female body, is a unique construction within American culture that has been understood and "read" in a variety of ways in popular representation during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws from theatre, performance, and cultural studies, as well feminist methodologies and the emerging field of fat studies, Mobley interrogates common stereotypes and complex cultural beliefs associated with the fat female in performance, particularly in light of the so-called "obesity epidemic" in the United States. Analyzing a cross-section of post-WWII American plays, stage, and screen performances, as well as performers' bodies as cultural texts, she argues that the fat actress's body signals a myriad of (primarily negative and/or threatening) cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.
LC Classification Number
HM636

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