Research Catalog

Title

Staging age : the performance of age in theatre, dance, and film / edited by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and Leni Marshall.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes, 1960-
• Marshall, Leni, 1969-

Description

x, 238 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This groundbreaking text examines how artists on stage consciously perform age and aging. From Shakespeare to Beckett, dialogue and stage directions reveal varying understandings of age. Staging Age explores how performers respond to audience expectations, offering conscious--and unconscious--portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. This essay collection is the first to address issues of age and performance in a variety of media, including theatre, film, and dance. --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Age in the performing arts
• Ability, Influence of age on
• Ability, Influence of age on
• Age in the performing arts
• Alter Motiv
• ART > Performance
• ART > Reference
• Performing Arts
• Scenisk konst
• Tanz
• Theatre studies
• Film
• Theater

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780230623651 (hardback)
• 0230623654 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2010001961

OCLC

• 437300377
• SCSB-11886280

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library