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100 1 Mobley, Jennifer-Scott
245 10 Female bodies on the American stage|h[electronic resource]
:|benter fat actress /|cJennifer-Scott Mobley
250 1st ed
260 Basingstoke :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2014
300 252 p. :|b6 b&w, ill
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505 0 Introduction 1. The Body as a Cultural Text PART I: FAT
DRAMATURGIES 2. Fat Center Stage 3. Fat Love Stories 4.
Monsters, Man-eaters, and Fat Behavior PART II: FAT
SUBJECTIVITIES 5. Bodies Violating Boundaries 6. Fat Black
Miscegenation 7. Queering Fat 8. Fat-Face Minstrelsy PART
III: RECLAIMING FAT 9. Dangerous Curves 10. Enter Fat
Actress
516 Document
520 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.|bFat, especially the fat female body, is a
unique construction within American culture that has been
understood and read in a variety of ways in popular
representation during the late twentieth and early twenty-
first centuries. With an interdisciplinary approach that
draws from theatre, performance, and cultural studies, as
well feminist methodologies and the emerging field of fat
studies, Mobley interrogates common stereotypes and
complex cultural beliefs associated with the fat female in
performance, particularly in light of the so-called
obesity epidemic in the United States. Analyzing a cross-
section of post-WWII American plays, stage, and screen
performances, as well as performers' bodies as cultural
texts, she argues that the fat actress's body signals a
myriad of (primarily negative and/or threatening) cultural
assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in
performance
520 1 Female Bodies on the American Stage pierces the heart of
representational politics by parsing how body size
influences reception. Mobley incisively analyzes the
history of social judgments against larger than sylph-like
women, and traces how size prohibitions play out in
theatre, film, and television. Considering gender
alongside race and ethnicity, Mobley elegantly unpacks the
pernicious, ongoing policing of women's bodies, and
persuasively illustrates the complicity of cultural
production in enforcing impossible, demeaning standards
for normative beauty. - Jill Dolan, Professor of English,
Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Princeton University, US Desired and deified in earlier
epochs for their curvaceous and voluptuous figures,
statuesque female performers have become, over the course
of the twentieth century, reviled and vilified, reduced to
stock characters, and a panoply of gross stereotypes.
Interrogating the rise of fat prejudice, Mobley reads the
bodies of 'broad broads' as embodied cultural texts within
and against a backdrop of material abundance and
capitalist excess, American self-determination, and
Puritan morality. This book is essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand the cultural, political,
and aesthetic dimensions of corpulence. - Sara Warner,
Associate Professor, Theatre, Cornell University, USA
538 PDF
545 0 Jennifer-Scott Mobley is Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Department of Theatre and Dance at Rollins College,
USA. Her work appeared in the inaugural issue of Fat
Studies and she has published in Theatre Journal, Theatre
Survey, and Shakespeare Bulletin
650 0 Actresses|xSocial conditions|zUnited States
650 0 Body image in the theater|zUnited States
650 0 Overweight women in literature
650 0 Overweight women|zUnited States
650 0 Theater|xCasting|zUnited States
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650 7 Literary studies: plays & playwrights|zUSA.|2bicssc
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