Modernist Disguise : : Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture / / Ron J. Popenhagen.

Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in visu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 IMPRESSIONS OF THE COVERED BODY
  • 2 FACING CHANGE AND CHANGING MASKS
  • 3 REFORMING AND UNIFORMING THE BODY
  • 4 FEIGNED AND DISTORTED BODYSCAPES
  • 5 ACTORS’ EFFIGIES AND PHOTO-PORTRAITS
  • 6 FRACTURED AND EFFACED FAÇADES
  • 7 OTHER PLACES
  • EXHIBITIONS AND WEBSITES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX