Consuming female performers : 1850s-1950s

Title
  1. Consuming female performers : 1850s-1950s / edited by Sabine Chaouche and Clara Sadoun-Édouard.
Published by
  1. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015.
  2. copyright 2015

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Additional authors
  1. Chaouche, Sabine
  2. Sadoun-Édouard, Clara
Description
  1. 383 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Series statement
  1. European drama and performance studies 2015-2, no 5
Uniform title
  1. European drama and performance studies ; 2015-2, no 5.
Subject
  1. Women in the performing arts > History > 20th century
  2. Women entertainers > History > 20th century
  3. Women in the performing arts > History > 19th century
  4. Women entertainers > History > 19th century
Contents
  1. Part I Body story telling -- Claudine au café-concert. Claudine Lamour de Camille Lemonnier (1892), roman de la dévoration sur scène -- Variety theatre and theatre of variations. Performance, Female Body and Music in Émile Zola's Nana (1880), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Arthur Schnitzler's Frdulein Else (1924) -- Corps en spectacle, et en papier -- Faire oeuvre de soie. Anatomie de la "danse serpentine" de Loïe Fuller -- Métamorphoses du corps dansant sur les scènes parisiennes. Du ballet romantique à la Revue nègre -- Part II Body plays -- La culture du corps au café-concert. Eugénie Buffet, reine des pierreuses -- Mashers and murderers. Music hall male impersonators and their depiction in Neo-Victorian fiction -- Ail the ladies vanish. Notes on women, early film, and the birth of modem sexuality -- Performing in the foggy mist. Marlene Dietrich's image transfers -- Part III Fashioning performers -- De la comédienne au mannequin. Icônes de la mode à la Comédie-Française -- Contracts between fashion and the stage (1920-1950) -- Venus in finery. The courtesan of the silent screen -- Part IV Consuming celebrities -- Performing cliché. Sarah Bernhardt and stereotypes of celebrity -- Consuming Jane Avril. The mystery of celebrity culture in the symbolist age -- Death and the chorus girl. Royalty, scandai, and the gaiety girl suicide -- La dignité de l'actrice. La Légion d'honneur de Julia Bartet (1905).
Call number
  1. ReCAP 16-61152
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-366) and index.
Language (note)
  1. Contributions in French or English; abstracts in French and English.
Title
  1. Consuming female performers : 1850s-1950s / edited by Sabine Chaouche and Clara Sadoun-Édouard.
Publisher
  1. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015.
Copyright date
  1. copyright 2015
Series
  1. European drama and performance studies 2015-2, no 5
  2. European drama and performance studies ; 2015-2, no 5.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-366) and index.
Language
  1. Contributions in French or English; abstracts in French and English.
Added author
  1. Chaouche, Sabine, editor.
  2. Sadoun-Édouard, Clara, editor.
ISBN
  1. 9782812448416 (pbk.) : 38,00 EUR
Research call number
  1. ReCAP 16-61152
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