Catherine Hindson

Female performance practice on the fin-de-siècle popular stages of London and Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loà e Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .

Produktdetails

• Women, Theatre and Performance
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090141
• ISBN-10: 0719090148
• Artikelnr.: 37253960

Autorenporträt

Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The terrain: 1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation,
performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris 2. 'All the
noblest arts ... expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped
body': embodiment and spectacular performances of gender Spaces: 3.
Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre,
London 4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière
hospital, Paris Image: 5. 'They are wise who advertise, in every
generation': image and the female celebrity 6. The art of imitation:
staging the cult of celebrity Intersections: 7. Moving away from the muse:
Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage 8.
Avant-Garde Salomania: 'the most famous dancing girl in history?' Afterword
Bibliography