Actresses and Mental Illness - Histrionic Heroines

List of contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Performing the Rest Cure: Mrs Patrick Campbell Chapter 2 The Minor Actress Undone: Peg Entwistle and Dorothy Hale Chapter 3 The Actress and Addiction: Diana Barrymore Chapter 4 Mythmaking Madness: Vivien Leigh Chapter 5 Mad Actress as Icon: Frances Farmer

About the author

Fiona Gregory is Lecturer in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne. Her research on the history of the actress has appeared in leading journals including New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.

Summary

This book examines the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal history of mental illness.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory, Fiona Gregory
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138490338
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49033-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender; Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Gender studies, gender groups