An edition of The stages of age (1998)

The stages of age

performing age in contemporary American culture

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An edition of The stages of age (1998)

The stages of age

performing age in contemporary American culture

by

Although the mention of aging and old age all too often conjures notions of rigidity, decline, and invisibility, the very act of acting, of taking on a new role, can challenge and expand popular conceptions of later life. The first study of its kind, The Stages of Age looks at the aging actor and at aging as acting in a wide array of American performances that interrupt, transform, and underscore stereotypes of old age.

Anne Davis Basting argues that advancing age is an essential category that should not be overlooked in discussions of identity and difference.

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University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects

Theater and older people Intergenerational relations Arts and older people Older people Theater Schauspieler Alter

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United States
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The stages of age: performing age in contemporary American culture
1998, University of Michigan Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.26
Library of Congress
HQ1064.U5 B287 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 224 p. :
Number of pages
224

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL349752M
Internet Archive
stagesofageperfo0000bast
ISBN 10
0472109391
LCCN
98009015
OCLC/WorldCat
38573205
Goodreads
3279141

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Work ID
OL1835099W

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