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Staging Femininities

Author : Geraldine Harris
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052637
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Staging Femininities written by Geraldine Harris and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.

Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays

Author : Hailey Bachrach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009356151
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays written by Hailey Bachrach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre

Author : Nancy Copeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898248
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre written by Nancy Copeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.

Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

Author : Nadia Kaneva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131737973X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities written by Nadia Kaneva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media re-construct ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore a comprehensive range of questions including: How have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? How does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? How can we understand and theorize post-socialist women’s activist movements? In seeking answers to such questions, this volume highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces. It bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Staging Socialist Femininity

Author : Ana Hofman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004191933
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Staging Socialist Femininity written by Ana Hofman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the stage performance of female vocal groups as cultural practices which produced a new pattern in the representation of gender in the light of the socialist identity politics, book offers a multifaced picture of the personal experiences of the socialist gender politics in socialist Serbia.

Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television

Author : R. Mock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137067136
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television written by R. Mock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes and traces a previously unrecognized performance tradition of extraordinary Jewish women in the Diaspora, from Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt in Nineteenth Century France to Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard in late Twentieth Century America.

Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage

Author : Viviana Comensoli
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067303
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage by : Viviana Comensoli

Download or read book Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage written by Viviana Comensoli and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Author : Sean Metzger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350123188
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre written by Sean Metzger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings. Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

Author : Virginia Picchietti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319408356
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture written by Virginia Picchietti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.

Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s

Author : Lynne Greeley
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967425
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s written by Lynne Greeley and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented, fascinating book which covers women in theatre from the 1910s to the 2010s, author Lynne Greeley notes that, for the purposes of this study, "feminism" is defined as the political impulse toward economic and social empowerment for females or the female-identified, a position perceived by many feminists as oppositional to ideas of femininity that they see as personally and politically constraining and that "femininity" comprises social behaviors and practices that mean as "many different things as there are women," some of which are empowering and others of which are not. This book illuminates how throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, playwrights and artists in American theatre both embodied and disrupted the feminine of their times. Through approaches as wide ranging as performing their own recipes, energizing silences, raging against war and rape, and inviting the public to inscribe their naked bodies, theatre artists have used performance as a site to insert themselves between the physicality of their female presence and the liminality of their disrupting the role of the feminine. Capturing that place of liminality, a neither-here-nor-there place that is often unsafe, where the established order is overturned by acts as banal as raising a plant, women have written and performed and disrupted their way through one hundred years of theatre history, even within the constraints of a variably rigid and usually unsympathetic social order. Creating a feminist femininity, they have reinscribed their place in the culture and provided models for their audiences to do the same. This comprehensive tome, part of the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts headed by John Clum (Duke University) is an essential addition for theater studies and women's studies.

Gender and the Italian Stage

Author : Maggie Günsberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590280
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Italian Stage written by Maggie Günsberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the portrayal of gender on the Italian stage from the Renaissance to the present, in a social and theoretical context.

Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000

Author : Roberta Barker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597483
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000 written by Roberta Barker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures. It will be of interest to theatre practitioners as well as to students of early modern drama, of performance, and of gender studies.

Fashion and Contemporaneity

Author : Laura Petican
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392254
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Fashion and Contemporaneity written by Laura Petican and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the voices of scholars, fashion designers, bloggers and artists, which speak to the pervasive nature of fashion in matters of politics, history, economics, sociology, religion, art and identity in the twenty-first century.

Women on the Renaissance Stage

Author : Clare McManus
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062506
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Women on the Renaissance Stage written by Clare McManus and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.

Gender and Heritage

Author : Wera Grahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315460076
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Heritage written by Wera Grahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. Through a series of case studies, models and assessments, the significance of understanding and working with concepts of gender is demonstrated as a dynamic and reforming agenda. Demonstrating that gender has become an increasingly important area for heritage scholarship, the collection argues that it should also be recognised as a central structuring device within society and the location where a critical heritage studies can emerge. Drawing on contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry. From the politics of museum displays, the exploration of pedagogy, the role of local initiatives and the legal frameworks that structure representation, the volume’s diversity and objectives represent a challenge for students, academics and professionals to rethink gender. Rather than featuring gender as an addition to wider discussions of heritage, this volume makes gender the focus of concern as a means of building a new agenda within the field. This volume, which addresses how we engage with gender and heritage in both practice and theory, is essential reading for scholars at all levels and should also serve as a useful guide for practitioners.

Staging the Renaissance

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136758240
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Staging the Renaissance written by David Scott Kastan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Goldberg, Marjorie Garber, Lisa Jardine, and Jonathan Dollimore-- demonstrating the variety and vitality not only of contemporary criticism, but of Renaissance drama itself.

Staging Queer Feminisms

Author : Sarah French
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465433
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Staging Queer Feminisms written by Sarah French and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides an accessible and engaging account of some of the most innovative, entertaining and politically subversive Australian theatrical works from the past decade.