GWEN FFRANGCON-DAVIES, TWENTIETH-CENTURY ACTRESS by Helen Grime ( 9781781443613 )

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GWEN FFRANGCON-DAVIES, TWENTIETH-CENTURY ACTRESS

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ISBN 10:

1781443610

ISBN 13:

9781781443613

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 July, 2013

Series:

Dramatic Lives 3

Description:

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies is a paradox; a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century she is now largely forgotten. Drawing on material held in Ffrangcon-Davies's personal archive, Grime argues that the representation of the actress, on and off the stage, can be read in terms of its constructions of normative female behaviours.

Synopsis:

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies is a paradox; a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century, she is now largely forgotten. Her personal story is a journey through a social and cultural landscape in which what it meant to be a woman, an actress and a lesbian shifted enormously. Drawing on material held in Ffrangcon-Davies's personal archive, Grime demonstrates how the career of Ffrangcon-Davies, on and off the stage, can be read against the grain of its apparent conventionality. This book reveals a skilled navigator of social and professional networks who excelled in playing with notions of identity and confounded society's expectations, finally defying all attempts at reductive categorization.

Illustrations:

10 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables

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Imprint:

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd

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Non-returnable

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