Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s
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Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s

Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour

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Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s

Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour

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About This Book

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of 'the' female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination.

Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel, Luisita Leers, and the Flying Codonas, revealing what is performed and implicit in today's practice. Using a wealth of original sources, this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport, glamour, and gender, this book asks important questions about their stardom, including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses?

This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance, circus, gender, popular performance, and performance studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9780429594311
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. List of illustrations
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: Producing allure and popularity
  12. 1. Democratising experience: Diverse transformative performance spaces
  13. 2. To glamour: A kinaesthetic fantasy of weightlessness
  14. 3. Skilful vulnerability: Showmanship and the performance of skill and risk
  15. 4. Performing and negotiating muscular femininity: Aerial celebrity and the modern girl
  16. 5. Absorbing activity into femininity: Moving bodies, citizenship, and beauty
  17. Conclusion: Updating aerial celebrity and re-evaluating practice
  18. Index