Female Bodies on the American Stage

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.

Publication Year: 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 4188