Neo-Burlesque : : Striptease as Transformation / / Lynn Sally.
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Revelations and Disidentification
- Introduction: Definitions and Methodologies
- 1. Burlesque as Popular Performance: MsTickle’s Explicit Body as Palimpsest
- 2. Burlesque as Monster/Beauty: Beautiful Monsters and the Monstrosity of Beauty in Dita Von Teese
- 3. Burlesque as Unruly: Dirty Martini and the Political Efficacy of an Invisible Wink
- 4. Burlesque as Pretty/Funny: The Comedic Stylings of Little Brooklyn’s Burlesquing Burlesque
- 5. Burlesque as Parodic Pageantry: The Agitprop Theatrics of Bambi the Mermaid’s Miss Coney Island Pageant
- 6. Burlesque as Camp: Gender Becoming in World Famous *BOB*’s “One Man Show”
- 7. Burlesque as Revolution: The Ridiculous Theatre of Julie Atlas Muz
- Conclusion: Nasty Women and Female Chauvinist Pigs
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index