The Spectacle of Women
Author | : Lisa Tickner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lisa Tickner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lisa Tickner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1988-03-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226802459 |
Too "artistic" for political history, too political for the history of art, the visual history of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates the suffragist use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.
Author | : Susan A. Glenn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0674037669 |
When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
Author | : Lisa Tickner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Madeline Harrison Caviness |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780812235999 |
For Caviness, an awareness of historical context places pressure upon contemporary theories like that of the "male gaze," changing their shapes and creating even richer dialogues with the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : K. Durga Bhavani |
Publisher | : Cambridge India |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Mass media |
ISBN | : 8175967684 |
Contributed articles presented at a national seminar on "Women in/and Media" on women in mass media conducted at Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Author | : Amy E. Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-12-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0472118625 |
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.
Author | : Maureen E. Montgomery |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134952864 |
Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York's fashionable society. Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
Author | : Susan Steinberg |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555970648 |
An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly
Author | : Gina Daddario |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1998-05-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Historically, the mass media have marginalized women's sports by devoting more coverage to men's sports and trying to appeal to a male audience. This volume analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports. The Olympic Games are highlighted because they provide one of the few sports arenas where women's participation is heavily covered, promoted, and celebrated. The author suggests the media are recognizing the significance of female spectatorship and are attempting to respond to this growing audience by adopting some of the rhetorical and textual characteristics of soap opera and melodrama.