Actresses and Mental Illness Histrionic Heroines Interdisciplinary Research in Gender Series
Auteur : Gregory Fiona
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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.
Introduction Chapter 1 Performing the Rest Cure: Mrs Patrick Campbell Chapter 2 The Minor Actress Undone: Peg Entwistle and Dorothy Hale Chapter 3 The Actress and Addiction: Diana Barrymore Chapter 4 Mythmaking Madness: Vivien Leigh Chapter 5 Mad Actress as Icon: Frances Farmer
Fiona Gregory is Lecturer in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne. Her research on the history of the actress has appeared in leading journals including New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.
Date de parution : 02-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème d’Actresses and Mental Illness :
Mots-clés :
Transorbital Lobotomy; Phoenix Art Museum; Mental Illness; Frances Farmer; Celebrity Identity; Kahlo’s Painting; Mrs Tanqueray; Young Man; Rest Cure; Psychiatric Nursing Home; Jeanne Eagels; ECT; Thirteen Women; Minor Actress; Mrs Pat; Paula Tanqueray; Hampshire House; Hale’s Body; Campbell’s Performance; Eighteenth Century Actresses; Chalk Garden; Hollywood Sign; Emotional Exhaustion; Celebrity Alcoholic; Kahlo’s Work