Modernist disguise masquerade in modern performance and visual culture /
Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary culture. Looks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in vi...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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| Serie: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1c29t06 |
Sommario:
- Impressions of the covered body
- Facing change and changing masks
- Reforming and uniforming the body
- Feigned and distorted bodyscapes
- Actors' effigies and photo-portraits
- Fractured and effaced façades
- Other places.