Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress

by Jennifer-Scott Mobley

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.

251 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 2014

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[Nancy]

Finish date: 10 December 2017
Genre: non-fiction
Rating: B
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Ms Jennifer Scott-Mobley is Assistant Professor – Theatre History & Dramaturgy at East Carolina University. She highlights and thus alters deeply ingrained attitudes about fat.
Ms Scott-Mobley takes the reader through ‘fat actress’ performances across stage, screen and television.
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