Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)
ISBN-13:
9780807819609
ISBN-10:
0807819603
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Robert Allen
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Paperback
370 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780807819609
ISBN-10:
0807819603
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Robert Allen
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Paperback
370 pages
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) (ISBN-13: 9780807819609 and ISBN-10: 0807819603), written by authors
Robert Allen, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1991.
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Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners.Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body.Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.
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