An edition of The stages of age
(1998)
The stages of age
performing age in contemporary American culture
by Anne Davis Basting
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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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The stages of age: performing age in contemporary American culture
1998, University of Michigan Press
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0472109391 9780472109395
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
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