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Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress J. Mobley
Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress
J. Mobley
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.
252 pages, 6 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 4, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781137430663 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 239 |
| Dimensions | 218 × 145 × 20 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |