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- catalog abstract "Whether it's Ziggy Stardust or a troupe of Kabuki actors, the evocative transvestite performer offers a subliminal homoerotic fantasy and provides the lasting image of the show long after its closing night. Theater historian and critic Senelick synthesizes an array of material from archival research and a lifetime of theater-going to provide a cross-cultural record of cross-dressing on the stage. Pantomimists, dame comedians, principal boys, glamour drag artistes, androgyne rock stars, and male impersonators are traced from their roots in tribal ritual and Christian pageantry to today's forms, capturing the allure and excitement of gender-bending performance: its rebellion, its public spectacle, its amusements, its tragedies, its escapism. Senelick elucidates the dynamic between the theater as both mainstream forum and anti-establishment haven for misfits, ravers, radical activists, and outcasts. With 100 photographs, this book offers a voyeuristic vision of a lifestyle watched by many, but lived by few.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b11526624.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: Acting out. The sham in shaman ; The Greek for it is 'gynaikíseōs' ; Skirting Christ -- Part II: Stages of sodomy. Orientations ; China trade ; Playboys and boy players -- Part III: The mannish and the unmanned. Arms and the woman ; Monstrous pleasures of the baroque ; Breeches birth ; Beldames sans merci ; The prince, the pauper and the pan. -- Part IV: Subcultures surface. Putting on the drag ; The imp(ersonator) of the perverse ; Amateur hour -- Part V: Children of the ghetto. Queens of clubs ; Alternatives ; Sex, drags and rock 'n' roll ; Glad-ragging the Establishment ; A gender of their own -- Afterword : from dressing up to dressing down.".
- catalog description "Whether it's Ziggy Stardust or a troupe of Kabuki actors, the evocative transvestite performer offers a subliminal homoerotic fantasy and provides the lasting image of the show long after its closing night. Theater historian and critic Senelick synthesizes an array of material from archival research and a lifetime of theater-going to provide a cross-cultural record of cross-dressing on the stage. Pantomimists, dame comedians, principal boys, glamour drag artistes, androgyne rock stars, and male impersonators are traced from their roots in tribal ritual and Christian pageantry to today's forms, capturing the allure and excitement of gender-bending performance: its rebellion, its public spectacle, its amusements, its tragedies, its escapism. Senelick elucidates the dynamic between the theater as both mainstream forum and anti-establishment haven for misfits, ravers, radical activists, and outcasts. With 100 photographs, this book offers a voyeuristic vision of a lifestyle watched by many, but lived by few.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 540 p. :".
- catalog identifier "041510078X (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0415159865 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender in performance".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "791/.086/6 21".
- catalog subject "Female impersonators History.".
- catalog subject "Female impersonators.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity.".
- catalog subject "Impersonation History.".
- catalog subject "Male impersonators History.".
- catalog subject "Male impersonators.".
- catalog subject "PN2071.I47 S46 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Acting out. The sham in shaman ; The Greek for it is 'gynaikíseōs' ; Skirting Christ -- Part II: Stages of sodomy. Orientations ; China trade ; Playboys and boy players -- Part III: The mannish and the unmanned. Arms and the woman ; Monstrous pleasures of the baroque ; Breeches birth ; Beldames sans merci ; The prince, the pauper and the pan. -- Part IV: Subcultures surface. Putting on the drag ; The imp(ersonator) of the perverse ; Amateur hour -- Part V: Children of the ghetto. Queens of clubs ; Alternatives ; Sex, drags and rock 'n' roll ; Glad-ragging the Establishment ; A gender of their own -- Afterword : from dressing up to dressing down.".
- catalog title "The changing room : sex, drag, and theatre / Laurence Senelick.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".