Becoming Cleopatra
The Shifting Image of an Icon
Cleopatra. Sexy, sultry, political, and racially ambiguous. Moving fluidly from Shakespeare's England to contemporary LA, Francesca Royster looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of that icon of dangerous female sexuality, Cleopatra. Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ). Royster argues that Cleopatra highlights a larger cultural anxiety about women, sexuality, and race.
Cleopatra. Sexy, sultry, political, and racially ambiguous. Moving fluidly from Shakespeare's England to contemporary LA, Francesca Royster looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of that icon of dangerous female sexuality, Cleopatra. Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ). Royster argues that Cleopatra highlights a larger cultural anxiety about women, sexuality, and race.
| Autor: | Royster, F. |
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| ISBN: | 9781403961082 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.09.2003 |
| Untertitel: | The Shifting Image of an Icon |
| Schlagworte: | America—Literatures Arts B Biography, Literature & Literary studies Biography, Literature and Literary studies Civilization—History Cultural History Cultural Studies Culture—Study and teaching Film History Film and TV History Film history, theory & criticism Literature Literature, general Literature: history & criticism Motion pictures—History North American Literature Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection Regional Cultural Studies Regional Studies Regional and Cultural Studies Social & cultural history |
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