The stages of age : performing age in contemporary American culture / Anne Davis Basting.
| Author/creator | Basting, Anne Davis, 1965- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998. |
| Description | vi, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index. |
| LCCN | 98009015 |
| ISBN | 0472109391 (cloth : acid-free paper) |