Female Bodies on the American Stage
Enter Fat Actress| By: | J. Mobley |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137430663 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137428943 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.