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Actresses and Mental Illness - Histrionic Heroines (Hardcover)
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Actresses and Mental Illness - Histrionic Heroines (Hardcover)
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
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Actresses and Mental Illness investigates the relationship between
the work of the actress and her personal experience of mental
illness, from the late nineteenth through to the end of twentieth
century. Over the past two decades scholars have made great
advances in our understanding of the history of the actress,
unearthing the material conditions of her working life, the force
of her creative agency and the politics of her reception and
representation. By focusing specifically on actresses' encounters
with mental illness, Fiona Gregory builds on this earlier work and
significantly supplements it. Through detailed case studies of both
well-known and neglected figures in theatre and film history,
including Mrs Patrick Campbell, Vivien Leigh, Frances Farmer and
Diana Barrymore, it shows how mental illness - actual or supposed -
has impacted on actresses' performances, careers and celebrity. The
book covers a range of topics including: representing emotion on
stage; the 'failed' actress; actresses and addiction; and actresses
and psychiatric treatment. Actresses and Mental Illness expands the
field of actress studies by showing how consideration of the
personal experience of the actress influences our understanding of
her work and its reception. The book underscores how the actress
can be perceived as a representative public woman, acting as a lens
through which we can examine broader attitudes to women and mental
illness.
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