Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress PDF
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Female Bodies on the American Stage This page intentionally left blank Female Bodies on the American Stage Enter Fat Actress Jennifer-Scott Mobley female bodies on the american stage Copyright © Jennifer-Scott Mobley, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-43066-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49211-4 ISBN 978-1-137-42894-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137428943 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mobley, Jennifer-Scott, 1970– Female bodies on the American stage : enter fat actress / by Jennifer-Scott Mobley. pages cm Based on the author’s thesis (doctoral)—City University of New York. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Theater—Casting—United States. 2. Body image in the theater— United States. 3. Actresses—United States—Social conditions. 4. Overweight women in literature. 5. Overweight women—United States. I. Title. PN2293.C38M63 2014 792.02′80820973—dc23 2014008960 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Amnet. First edition: September 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For all my beautiful students, especially those friends of ED; you are perfect. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Body as a Cultural Text 9 Part I Fat Dramaturgies 2 Fat Center Stage 31 3 Fat Love Stories 49 4 Monsters, Man Eaters, and Fat Behavior 63 Part II Fat Subjectivities 5 Bodies Violating Boundaries 85 6 Fat Black Miscegenation 97 7 Queering Fat 113 8 Fat-Face Minstrelsy 123 Part III Reclaiming Fat 9 Dangerous Curves 141 10 Enter Fat Actress 163 Conclusion: Rethinking Realism 175 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 217 This page intentionally left blank List of Illustrations 1.1 Lillian Russell, 1861–1922 13 1.2 Picturesque America, anywhere in the mountains 15 4.1 Kathleen Turner in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? 80 8.1 Kirstie Alley at the Fat Actress premier 129 10.1 Melissa McCarthy at the 2011 Emmys 166 10.2 Lena Dunham at the 2013 Golden Globes 171
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