Body Knowledge Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
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| Author:
| Simonson, Mary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-989801-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $195.00 |
Book Description:
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This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues, including new technologies, modes of perception, and conceptions of gender and race.
This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues, including new technologies, modes of perception, and conceptions of gender and race.