Laurence Senelick

The Changing Room (eBook, ePUB)

Sex, Drag and Theatre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134722013
• Artikelnr.: 47890271

Autorenporträt

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University. He is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His many publications include lovesick (1998), The Chekhov Theatre, and the Age and Stage of George L. Fox.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Acting out
1. The Sham in Shaman 2. The Greek for It Was Gynaikíseos 3. Skirting
Christ Part 2: Stages of Sodomy 4. Orientations 4. China Trade 5. Playboys
and Boy Players Part 3: The Mannish and the Unmanned 7. Arms and the Woman
8. Monstrous Pleasures of the Baroque 9. Breeches Birth 10. Beldames sans
Merci 11. The Prince, the Pauper and the Pan Part 4: Subcultures Surface
12. Putting On the Drag 13. The Impersonator) of the Perverse 14. Amateur
Hour Part 5: Children of the Ghetto 15. Queens of Clubs 16. Alternatives
17. Sex, Drags and Rock n Roll 18. Subversive Clowns 19. A Gender of their
Own Afterword: Dressing Down. Index