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Matilda Heron, American Actress
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Charlotte Cushman, American Actress
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Fanny Davenport, Actress and Manager
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Actress Hedy Lamarr, Inventor: A Public Image Reframed
… discourse analysis to unpack the story of Actress Hedy Lamarr, Inventor, to illuminate the prevailing intersectional discourses and structural barriers impacting women and other minoritized groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and other male-dominated …
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The Career of Alice Brady, Stage and Screen Actress
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
1 PDF file (iii, 133 pages)
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Of stars and standards: Actress-managers of Philadelphia and New York, 1855-1880
… company traditions as well as several notable actress-managers who preceded those profiled.
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Having a bath in Japan: a biographical study of actress and black belt jūdōka Sarah Mayer (1896-1957)
In 1933, British actor and playwright, Sarah Mayer, left behind her wealthy husband, and the large country estate they shared in rural Hampshire, for a trip to Japan. As a judo enthusiast travelling as a sports tourist, Sarah became the first western woman in Japan to receive the award of shōdan, …
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
<p>Actress studies has become “a truly interdisciplinary field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
… the nineteenth-century American breeches actress. Established as a popular convention during the English Restoration, the practice of breeches performance reached its peak in America during the first half of the nineteenth century as actresses donned doublets and hose, tunics and tights on …
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Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine
<p>Smita Patil is an Indian actress who worked in films for a twelve year period between 1974 and 1986, during which time she established herself as one of the powerhouses of the Parallel Cinema movement in the country. She was discovered by none other than Shyam Benegal, a pioneering film-maker …
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Playing House with Coward’s “Hay Fever”
<p>A retired actress and her quirky family trap four guests in elaborately woven games in Noel Coward’s Hay Fever. Within the concept of “playing house,” the glamour of Coward’s work lives on through scenery, costumes, and lighting, while his quirkier side is highlighted in hopes of making his …
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Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
… constituted during 1980s and 1990s America: actress Jane Fonda, infomercial queen Susan Powter, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I point to the troubling effects of the articulations between feminism and fitness and examine the contemporary American therapeutic cultures of recovery and …
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Sifting
… All characters in the script are played by one actress.</p> <p>The DVD is the performance of the script and the remainder of this document describes the process of creating, rehearsing, and performing the solo show.</p>
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"Play Your Fan": Exploring Hand Props and Gender on the Restoration Stage Through the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, and the Way of the World
… common, yet important, use of fans to convey the actresses' moods, and begins to realize the full connection between body and item, but leaves his argument resting in a practical space, stating only that it "served the actress so well on stage" (107). Styan also dissects the actor's prop list, …
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
… idealized for her unparalleled beauty; a famed actress and mistress to royalty known to live beyond her means in an era of exploding print culture: Mary Robinson found herself portrayed incongruously in motley of mediums. While the leading portrait artists of the day, Thomas Gainsborough, George …
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Burn Fortune: The Real June not Marvelous Enough for Us
… who surround her, June becomes obsessed with the actress Jean Seberg (best known for her starring role in Godard’s <em>Breathless</em>) as well as Joan of Arc. After being raped by an acquaintance, June withdraws and begins to live mostly through Seberg’s films, re-evaluating her life’s path while …
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Gravesend
… at Rite Aid, seeks revenge. Alessandra, a failed actress who has been in Los Angeles for a decade and has returned to Gravesend against her better judgment, is unexpectedly drawn to Ray Boy. And Eugene, Ray Boy's nephew, is a gangster-in-the-making who idolizes his uncle for all the wrong reasons. …
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Disrupting Narratives and Narrators: A Case for Anna Deavere Smith's Work in the High School Classroom
<p>Anna Deavere Smith, American actress, writer, and professor, explores racial conflicts and the nuances that contribute to dissonance and identity politics through her one- woman plays. Employing a journalistic dramatic format of her own, Smith interviews a panoply of people who play major and …
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