Mary Simonson

Body Knowledge

Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780199898039
• ISBN-10: 0199898030
• Artikelnr.: 37726019

Autorenporträt

Mary Simonson is Lecturer in Womens Studies and Film & Media Studies at Colgate University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* List of Musical Examples
* Acknowledgements
* Prologue: Staging Intermediality: Darktown, Downtown
* 1. Choreographing Salome: Recreating the Female Body
* 2. Acting Ancient: Hellenism, Pageantry, and American Modernity
* 3. Dancing Music: Isadora Duncan and Wagnerism in the American
Imagination
* 4. Dancing Pictures: Rita Sacchetto's Tanzbilder
* 5. Moving Images: Adeline Genee and Bessie Clayton's Danced Histories
* 6. Opera on Camera, Opera on Stage: Anna Pavlova and The Dumb Girl of
Portici
* Finale: Performing Intermediality in The Passing Show of 1913
* Bibliography
* Index