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The stages of age : performing age in contemporary American culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]
Subjects:
Older people > United States.
Theater and older people > United States.
Arts and older people > United States.
Intergenerational relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Acting your age : performance and performativity in an aging society
  • Feeling and being young : the Geritol Frolics
  • Radicalizing oral history : the Grandparents 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's Water lilies
  • Screen-deep : the beauty of mortality in Margolis Brown's Vidpires!
  • Dolly descending a staircase : stardom, age, and gender in Times Square.