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Published on: 2000-11-09
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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. NEW Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by ... Title Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. ... Title Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. ... Cultural Studies of the United States: Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by ... Horrible Prettiness has 77 ... Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture as ... Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in ... Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture ... Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) ... Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture ... Horrible prettiness : burlesque and American culture ... Horrible prettiness : burlesque and American culture. ... Horrible prettiness. ... Cultural studies of the United States. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by ... ... of the Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture by Robert C. Allen at ... Cultural Studies of the United States ... Horrible Prettiness is an ... Horrible prettiness: burlesque and American culture ... Horrible prettiness: burlesque and American ... and "Horrible Prettines: Burlesque and American Culture ... culture Cultural studies of the United States: DOWNLOAD EBOOK Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American ... READ book Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) ... Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture ...
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