The stages of age : performing age in contemporary American culture / Anne Davis Basting.

Author/creator Basting, Anne Davis, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Descriptionvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Acting your age : performance and performativity in an aging society -- Feeling and being young : the Geritol Frolics -- Radicalizing oral history : the Grandparents Living Theatre -- Generations of change : Roots & Branches and Elders Share the Arts -- Re-membering the living past in feminist theory : Suzannne Lacy's Crystal quilt -- The body in depth : Kazuo Ohno's Water lilies -- Screen-deep : the beauty of mortality in Margolis Brown's Vidpires! -- Dolly descending a staircase : stardom, age, and gender in Times Square.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
LCCN 98009015
ISBN0472109391 (cloth : acid-free paper)