Gender, Writing, Spectatorships

Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond

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ID23540285
AuthorsKatharine Mitchell (0000-0001-9147-8285)
Year2021
Pages240
Publication date2021-11-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGender, Writing, Spectatorships (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429293511
OpenAlexW4200148576
ISBN9780429293511
Open LibraryOL33927433M
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and in its consideration of female relationships based on admiration among performers and writers – the embodiment of a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.

Admiration · Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Opera · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Arts et femmes · Feminist theory · Femmes dans les arts du spectacle · General · History and criticism · Italian literature · Literary Criticism · Littérature italienne · Romance literature · Théorie féministe · Women and the arts · Women authors · Women in the performing arts

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