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- catalog abstract "'Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of "universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay Gibson Cima delineates previously unacknowledged complexities in the relationship between male playwrights and female characters in the modern theatre. That relationship has been misinterpreted, she maintains, because the contributions of female actors and the variations in their actual performance conditions and styles are too often ignored. Taking into account hypothetical as well as historical performances of works by representative male playwrights from Ibsen to Beckett, Cima sheds important new light on the acting styles invented by women to create female characters on stage. Changes in performance style, Cima observes, may alter conventional modes of viewing and disrupt behavioral codes generated by a patriarchal cultural system. Performing Women is essential reading for theatre critics and historians, feminist theorists, theatre professionals and amateurs, and others interested in film and the stage [Publisher description]".
- catalog contributor b4796867.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "'Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of "universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay Gibson Cima delineates previously unacknowledged complexities in the relationship between male playwrights and female characters in the modern theatre. That relationship has been misinterpreted, she maintains, because the contributions of female actors and the variations in their actual performance conditions and styles are too often ignored. Taking into account hypothetical as well as historical performances of works by representative male playwrights from Ibsen to Beckett, Cima sheds important new light on the acting styles invented by women to create female characters on stage. Changes in performance style, Cima observes, may alter conventional modes of viewing and disrupt behavioral codes generated by a patriarchal cultural system. Performing Women is essential reading for theatre critics and historians, feminist theorists, theatre professionals and amateurs, and others interested in film and the stage [Publisher description]".
- catalog description "Ibsen and the critical actor -- Strindberg and the transformational actor -- The Brecht Collective and the parabolic actor -- Pinter and the cinematic actor -- Shepard and the improvisational actor -- Beckett and the Nō actor.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 233 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Performing women.".
- catalog identifier "0801428742 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Performing women.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Performing women.".
- catalog subject "792/.028/082 20".
- catalog subject "Acting.".
- catalog subject "Drama Male authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and theater.".
- catalog subject "PN1590.W64 C56 1993".
- catalog subject "Women in the theater.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ibsen and the critical actor -- Strindberg and the transformational actor -- The Brecht Collective and the parabolic actor -- Pinter and the cinematic actor -- Shepard and the improvisational actor -- Beckett and the Nō actor.".
- catalog title "Performing women : female characters, male playwrights, and the modern stage / Gay Gibson Cima.".
- catalog type "text".