Staging Age

Author Valerie Barnes Lipscomb: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA.

Introduction PART I: FILM 'That Younger, Fresher Woman': Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood's Cult of Youth;  H.Addison The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film and Popular Culture; E.A.Kaplan Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre; N.King PART II: THEATRE Performing Female Age in Shakespeare's Plays;  J.Hill  & V.B.Lipscomb Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors' Bodies in Theatrical Media; J.Klein 'What Age Am I Now? And I?': The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett's Plays; R.Pe Palileo Molière's Miser, Old Age, and Potency; A.Wood PART III: DANCE Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance; J.Berson Age and the Dance Artist; B.Dickinson Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance; W.Oliver