Female Bodies on the American Stage Enter Fat Actress
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociologyGender StudiesPerforming ArtsTheaterHistory & CriticismMedia StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialArtHistory
2014Book
Author(s)J. Mobley
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137430663
LanguageEnglish
