Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress

By Jennifer-Scott Mobley

Book Overview

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349492116
• ISBN13: 9781349492114
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"