Glamour, kobiecość, widowisko. Aktorka jako obiekt pożądania
Glamour, femininity, performance. The actress as the object of desire

Author(s): Agata Łuksza
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: glamour; femininity; show; actress; sensuality; burlesque; musical comedy; variety; studies of a theatre
Summary/Abstract: The monograph concerns two fields of studies of a theatre: woman’s studies and popular genres’ studies. The author analyses a double relation between the femininity and the performance using the category of “glamour”, understood as a visual code rising in the city milieu. This code generates and controls the spectators’ desires. The author examines not only the historical genres (in which the actress was glamorized and as result the new model of femininity “glamour” was shaped) but also the attempts of impeachment of this model made in the theatre from the second half of the 20th century.

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