Neo-burlesque : striptease as transformation /
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: revelations & disidentification
- Burlesque as popular performance: Ms Tickle's explicity body as palimpsest
- Burlesque as monster/beauty: beautiful monsters & the monstrosity of beauty in Dita Von Tesse
- Bulesque as unruly: dirty martini and the political efficacy of an "invisible wink"
- Burlesque as pretty/funny: the comedic stylings of Little Brooklyn's burlesqing burlesque
- Burlesque as parodic pagentry: the agit-prop theatrics of Bambi the Mermaid's Miss Coney Island Pagent
- Burlesque as camp: gender becoming in the world famous *BOB*'s "one man show"
- Burlesque as revolution: the ridiculous theater of Julie Atlas Muz
- Conclusion: nasty women & female chauvinist pigs.