The stages of age : performing age in contemporary American culture
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The stages of age : performing age in contemporary American culture
University of Michigan Press, c1998
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The stages of age
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Bibliography: p. 205-218
Includes index
収録内容
- Acting your age : performance and performativity in an aging society
- Feeling and being young : the geritol frolics
- Radicalizing oral history : the granparents living theatre
- Generations of change : roots & branches and elders share the arts
- Re-membering the living past in feminist theory : Suzannne Lacy's crystal quilt
- The body in depth : Kazuo Ohno and water lilies
- Screen deep : the beauty of mortality in Margolis Brown's vidpires!
- Dolly descending staircase : stardom, age, and gender in Times Square
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内容説明
In a time when aging and old age are often equated with rigidity, decline, and invisibility, the very act of acting, of taking on a new role, can help shift cultural understandings of later life. In this book, playwright and scholar Anne Davis Basting explores both aging actors and aging as acting in a cross-section of American theatrical representations that hope to catalyze shifts in our understanding of age. The first study of its kind, The Stages of Age argues that aging is a vital element of identity and difference.
The author explores in rigorously self-conscious fashion eight performances that interrupt, transform, and underscore stereotypes of later age. Whether invoking the Geritol Frolics of Brainerd, Minnesota, The Grandparents Living Theatre of Columbus, Ohio, Carol Channing's smash revival of Hello, Dolly!, or her own work with Alzheimer's patients, Basting describes the dynamic processes and interchanges that constitute the aging process as well as the theatrical representations that capture that process. Fluently exploring the intersections of performance theory and sociological method while maintaining a clear focus on the actors and producers of senior theater, The Stages of Age introduces a long overlooked aspect of cultural identity and performance method.
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