The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture

by Anne Davis Basting

In a time when aging and old age are often equated with rigidity, decline, and invisibility, the very act of acting, of taking on a new role, can help shift cultural understandings of later life. In this book, playwright and scholar Anne Davis Basting explores both aging actors and aging as acting in a cross-section of American theatrical representations that hope to catalyze shifts in our understanding of age. The first study of its kind, The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472109391
• ISBN13: 9780472109395
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"