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Title: HORRIBLE PRETTINESS
BURLESQUE AND AMERICAN CULTURE
By: Robert C. Allen
Format: Hardback

List price: £54.50


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ISBN 10: 0807819603
ISBN 13: 9780807819609
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Pub. date: 31 May, 1991
Series: Cultural Studies of the United States
Pages: 382
Description: Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behaviour and appearance.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: illustrations (some colour)
Publication: US
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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