Staging Age The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film
by Marshall, Leni; Lipscomb, Valerie BarnesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-07-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This groundbreaking text examines how artists on stage consciously perform age and aging. From Shakespeare to Beckett, dialogue and stage directions reveal varying understandings of age.Staging Ageexplores how performers respond to audience expectations, offering conscious--and unconscious--portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. This essay collection is the first to address issues of age and performance in a variety of media, including theatre, film, and dance.
Author Biography
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Assistant Professor of English and directs the Writing Resource Center at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her work on the performance of age in drama has appeared in such journals as Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies and the Journal of Aging and Identity.
Leni Marshall is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. Her work on multicultural U.S. literatures and critical understandings of aging, ageism, and old age has appeared in the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, The Women’s Review of Books, the Doris Lessing Studies Journal, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Film | |
| ôThatYounger, Fresher Womanö: Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood's Cult of Youth | p. 11 |
| The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film, and Popular Culture | p. 27 |
| Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre | p. 57 |
| Theatre | |
| Performing Female Age in Shakespeare's Plays | p. 85 |
| Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors' Bodies in Theatrical Media | p. 109 |
| ôWhatAge Am I Now? And I?ö: The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett's Plays | p. 129 |
| Molière's Miser, Old Age, and Potency | p. 151 |
| Dance | |
| Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance | p. 165 |
| Age and the Dance Artist | p. 191 |
| Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance | p. 207 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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