Staging Age The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film [Hardcover]

This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses.Introduction PART I: FILM 'That Younger, Fresher Woman': Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood's Cult of Youth;? H.Addison The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film and Popular Culture; E.A.Kaplan Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre; N.King PART II: THEATRE Performing Female Age in Shakespeare's Plays;? J.Hill? & V.B.Lipscomb Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors' Bodies in Theatrical Media; J.Klein 'What Age Am I Now? And I?': The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett's Plays; R.Pe Palileo Moli?re's Miser, Old Age, and Potency; A.Wood PART III: DANCE Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance; J.Berson Age and the Dance Artist; B.Dickinson Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance; W.Oliver

A groundbreaking and timely collection of essays that demonstrates the value of bringing age studies and performance studies into greater dialogue . . . [The essays] are accessible, enlightening, and applicable to a wide audience of practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines . . . Staging Age offers an important and valuable contribution to studies of aging and performance, as it amplifies the range of critical issues addressed by the field, demonstrating the many ways of understanding age in performance. - Theatre Journal

Readers of Staging Age will find the work both accessible and enlightening. Valerie Lipscomb and Leni Marshall have done a remarkable job putting together this collection of articles. Film and theatre lovers will enjoy the lively essays on those subjects. Dance enthusiasts will particularly rejoice to find three superb articlesl3-