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Becoming Cleopatra
F. Royster
其他書名
The Shifting Image of an Icon
出版Springer, 2016-04-30
主題Art / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialPerforming Arts / Film / General
ISBN11370741759781137074171
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hmsYDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.