Staging age : the performance of age in theatre, dance, and film /
edited by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and Leni Marshall.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- x, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Film. "That younger, fresher woman" : old wives for new (1918) and Hollywood's cult of youth / by Heather Addison -- The unconscious of age : performances in psychoanalysis, film and popular culture / by E. Ann Kaplan -- Old cops : occupational aging in a film genre / by Neal King -- Theatre. Performing female age in Shakespeare's plays / by Janet Hill and Valerie Barnes Lipscomb -- Mediating childhood : how child spectators interpret actors' bodies in theatrical media / by Jeanne Klein -- "What age am I now? And I? : the science of the aged voice in Beckett's plays / by Ruth Pe Palileo -- Moliere's Miser, old age, and potency / by Allen Wood -- Dance. Old dogs, new tricks : intergenerational dance / by Jessica Berson -- Age and the dance artist / by Barbara Dickinson -- Still tapping after all these years : age and respect in tap dance / by Wendy Oliver.
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