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Staging age : the performance of age in theatre, dance, and film /

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Other Authors: Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes, 1960-, Marshall, Leni, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Age in the performing arts.
Ability, Influence of age on.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Film. "That younger, fresher woman" : old wives for new (1918) and Hollywood's cult of youth / Heather Addison
  • The unconscious of age : performances in psychoanalysis, film and popular culture / E. Ann Kaplan
  • Old cops : occupational aging in a film genre / Neal King
  • Theatre. Performing female age in Shakespeare's plays / Janet Hill and Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
  • Mediating childhood : how child spectators interpret actors' bodies in theatrical media / Jeanne Klein
  • "What age am I now? And I? : the science of the aged voice in Beckett's plays / Ruth Pe Palileo
  • Molière's Miser, old age, and potency / Allen Wood
  • Dance. Old dogs, new tricks : intergenerational dance / Jessica Berson
  • Age and the dance artist / Barbara Dickinson
  • Still tapping after all these years : age and respect in tap dance / Wendy Oliver.