Performing Identity: Actor Training, Self-Commodification and Celebrity 3031157982, 9783031157981

Performing Identity: Actor Training, Self-Commodification and Celebrity 3031157982, 9783031157981

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pres

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Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity 9781487537869

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a

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Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970 [1 ed.] 9781644531983, 9781644531969

While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since h

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Experiencing Speech: a Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training 9780367343767, 9780367343774, 9780429325373

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner’s guide to Knight-Thompson Spee

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Art and the Actor 9780231878630

A discussion of the actor as an artist, and also as a normal citizen not to be set apart from others socially or artisti

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Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture 9780857854407, 9780857854414, 9781350051126, 9781472567451

Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and

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Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present 9789048528677

This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity thro

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Diana Dors: Film Star and Actor 9781474474016

Examines Diana Dors’ film career, acting method, star image and enduring celebrity Traces the development of Dors’ film

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Female Celebrity and Ageing 9780415832366

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Men on trial: Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45 152613294X, 9781526132949

Men on trial explores how the Irish perform ‘the self’ within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implication

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