Actresses, Age, and Anxiety

2006

Author : Heather Lupton Rasche
Release : 2006
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Actresses, Age, and Anxiety by : Heather Lupton Rasche

Download or read book Actresses, Age, and Anxiety written by Heather Lupton Rasche. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But this raises several questions: does erasing the signs of age on the female face undermine an actress's work and challenge the autonomy of her performance? How does an actress's projection of youth affect her audience, particularly those who are female and midlife? What does an actress do to survive in this climate? This study answers such questions by examining the words of fifteen prominent actresses in Hollywood and New York who participated in this oral history project. These actresses, who agreed to be interviewed only under the protection of anonymity, say they experience a "menopausal blackout," a lack of employment at midlife that suggests gendered ageism. However, they worry that the strategies they use to stay employed, and the stereotypes they are frequently forced to play when employed, adversely affect the health of their midlife female audience. This dissertation analyzes, the cultural discomfort surrounding midlife female sexuality, and invites film, gender, and gerontological scholars who study images of women to go behind the scenes to hear what actresses have to say about the roles they play and the strategies they deploy.

Actresses and Mental Illness

2018-09-20 Performing Arts

Author : Fiona Gregory
Release : 2018-09-20
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Actresses and Mental Illness by : Fiona Gregory

Download or read book Actresses and Mental Illness written by Fiona Gregory. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actresses and Mental Illness investigates the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal experience of mental illness, from the late nineteenth through to the end of twentieth century. Over the past two decades scholars have made great advances in our understanding of the history of the actress, unearthing the material conditions of her working life, the force of her creative agency and the politics of her reception and representation. By focusing specifically on actresses’ encounters with mental illness, Fiona Gregory builds on this earlier work and significantly supplements it. Through detailed case studies of both well-known and neglected figures in theatre and film history, including Mrs Patrick Campbell, Vivien Leigh, Frances Farmer and Diana Barrymore, it shows how mental illness – actual or supposed – has impacted on actresses’ performances, careers and celebrity. The book covers a range of topics including: representing emotion on stage; the ‘failed’ actress; actresses and addiction; and actresses and psychiatric treatment. Actresses and Mental Illness expands the field of actress studies by showing how consideration of the personal experience of the actress influences our understanding of her work and its reception. The book underscores how the actress can be perceived as a representative public woman, acting as a lens through which we can examine broader attitudes to women and mental illness.

The New Female Antihero

2022-01-25 Performing Arts

Author : Sarah Hagelin
Release : 2022-01-25
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The New Female Antihero by : Sarah Hagelin

Download or read book The New Female Antihero written by Sarah Hagelin. This book was released on 2022-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland, to the joyful failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman—she who “has it all”—and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women’s lives in contemporary America.

Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective

2022-06-28 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Olsen
Release : 2022-06-28
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 444/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective by : Elizabeth Olsen

Download or read book Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective written by Elizabeth Olsen. This book was released on 2022-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Award-winning actress Elizabeth Olsen and esteemed musician Robbie Arnett have created a fresh approach to wellness in a new series that shows children ways to manage anxiety. A perfect back-to-school read! Meet Hattie Harmony, Worry Detective. She’s always there to help her friends when they need her. And the first day of school can cause a lot of jitters—from speaking in front of the class to taking the bus. Hattie always finds the perfect tools to calm her friends’ bodies and minds. But when her own fears start to bubble up, can Hattie learn to overcome them herself? Critically acclaimed actress Elizabeth Olsen and esteemed musician and writer Robbie Arnett have created an irresistible new character filled with warmth and humor to introduce the youngest readers to the importance of self-care.

Female Celebrity and Ageing

2016-04-29 Social Science

Author : Deborah Jermyn
Release : 2016-04-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 860/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Female Celebrity and Ageing by : Deborah Jermyn

Download or read book Female Celebrity and Ageing written by Deborah Jermyn. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the era when the ‘baby boomers’ have started drawing their pensions, the boundaries of what constitutes ‘old age’ have never seemed more fluid, and ageing has never been presented by advertisers and marketers in a more dynamic fashion. However, the fact remains that ageing is still widely feared, and growing old is an inherently gendered process, in which ageing women are paradoxically both rendered invisible and subjected to damning scrutiny. Nowhere is this conflicting state of affairs more evident than in celebrity culture, where ageing female stars are praised for ‘growing old gracefully’ one moment, and condemned for ‘letting themselves go’ the next, when they fail to age ‘appropriately’. Examining a variety of themes and ageing women in the spotlight, from Barbara Stanwyck to Madonna to Charlotte Rampling, the essays collected here forge new critical and conceptual insights into how women grow older in the media, and the implications of this for what Susan Sontag memorably called "the double standard of ageing". This book is based on a special issue of Celebrity Studies.

Popular eBooks

Actresses, Age, and Anxiety

Actresses and Mental Illness

The New Female Antihero

Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective

You may also like...