narratives Custom Essay – Hope Papers

narratives Custom Essay

INTRODUCTION
The body is a site for the enactment of various different identity formations: race, age, gender, sexuality and social class. This unit examines the way in which such

formations can be understood as part and parcel of performances of different kinds. The role of the body in creating and situating narratives and in the adaptation of

texts will be a central tenet. We will examine debates around performance and performativity, authenticity and inauthenticity in a number of different genres

including theatre, performance art, music, film and TV. Central to this analysis is the way in which identity is conceptualised through the design of a body for

performance.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (MARKING CRITERIA)

Upon successful completion of this unit you will be able to demonstrate:

1. A critical awareness of debates concerning the body and performance (Subject Knowledge);
2. An evaluative engagement with, and understanding of, relevant academic literature (Research);
3. Critical and analytical skills (Analysis);
4. Research and writing skills, including the ability to construct an argument and apply theoretical models as analytical tools and the ability to write an essay

in an appropriate academic form (Communication and Presentation).

ASSESSMENT METHODS

3000 word essay, fully referenced and accompanied by a Bibliography

ASSESSMENT AND PROJECT BRIEF

For this unit you must complete a 3000 word essay which answers the following question.
This should be accompanied by a full bibliography in the Harvard referencing format.

What role does the performing body play in expressing or transgressing the values, ideals and taboos of the society within which they are produced? Consider this

question in relation to themes from the lecture programme such as sexuality, gender, race, celebrity, fan cultures, ageing and virtual bodies.

RESEARCH
In order to facilitate your independent learning there is an extensive annotated weekly reading list below. Do not be intimidated by the size of this list, you are not

expected to read all the suggested titles. Annotations are the notes after each title; these tell you exactly what each reading is about – this will assist you in

identifying those which are most relevant to your interests (and chosen essay question). Many of the titles suggested are chapter length, not full books.

READING AND RESOURCE LIST

Key Texts, Introductory Readers & Edited Collections

Attwood, F. (Ed) (2009) Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture. London: I.B. Tauris.
(eBook)
Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (Eds) (2008) Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion. Oxford: Berg.
Blackman, L. (2008) The Body: The Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg. (eBook).
Bruzzi, S. and Church Gibson, P. (Eds) (2000) Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. London: Routledge.
Butler, J. (2006) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge.
Carlson, M. (2004) Performance: a critical introduction. London: Routledge
Church Gibson, P. (2011) Fashion and Celebrity Culture. Oxford: Berg.
Counsell, C. and Wolff. L. (Eds) (2001) Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook. London: Routledge
Creed, B (1993) The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. New York and London: The Women’s Press
Featherstone, M.; Hepworth, M. and Turner, B.S. (Eds) (2001) The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory. London: Sage
Featherstone, M. and Wernick, A. (Eds) (2004) Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life.
London: Routledge.
Foucault, M. (1995) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.
Foucault, M. (1976) The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (Volume One) London: Penguin
Freud, S. (2001) Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics. London: Routledge.
Goodman, L. and de Gay, J. (Eds) (1999) The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance London: Routledge. (eBook)
Hall, S. (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Routledge.
Hines, C. & Kerr, D. (Eds). (2013) Hard To Swallow. Columbia University Press.
Howson, A. (2013) The Body in Society: An Introduction (Second Edition). Cambridge: Polity. (eBook).
Huxley, M and Witts, N (Eds) (2002) The Twentieth Century Performance Reader. London: Routledge.
Inglis, I. (Ed) (2006) Performance and Popular Music: History, Place & Time. Aldershot: Ashgate. (eBook)
Johnson, D (Ed) (2013) Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK. London: Routledge.
Johnson, M. L. (Ed) (2013) The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge University Press. (eBook)
Kershaw, B. & Nicholson, H. (Eds) (2011) Research Methods in Theatre and Performance. Edinburgh
University Press. (eBook)
Korom, F.J. (2013) The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell (eBook)
Madison, D. S., Hamera, J. (Eds) (2006) The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies. California: Sage publications.
Pattie, D. (2007) Rock Music and Performance London Macmillan. (eBook).
Phelan, P. (1993) Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. London: Routledge. (eBook).
Schechner, R. (2013) Performance Studies: An Introduction (3rd Edition). London: Routledge (eBook).
Scheer, E & Klich, R. (2012) Multimedia Performance. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Shaughnessy, N. (2012) Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Shuker, R (2012) Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). London: Routledge.
Sontag, Susan (1972) ‘The Double Standard of Aging’ in Sunday Review. Available online at http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1972sep23-00029?View=PDFPages
Thomas, H. (2003) The Body, dance and cultural theory. London: Palgrave MacMillan
Turner, G. (2004) Understanding Celebrity, London: Sage. (eBook).
Whiteley, S; Bennett, A; Hawkins, S (Eds) (2004) Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural
Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate
Whiteley, S. (2000) Women and popular music: Sexuality, identity, and subjectivity. London: Routledge
Ylänne, V. (2012) Representing Ageing: Images and Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES

Analysing Bodies as Texts

Albright, A. (1997) Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance. Middletown: Wesley University Press
Auslander, P. (2003) Performance: Pt 1 Representation. London: Routledge
Ayers, R. (1999) ‘Serene and Happy and Distant: An Interview with Orlan’ Body & Society June
1999 5: 171-184.
Bakhtin, M. (1984) Rabelais and His World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Barthes, R. (1981) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Verso.
Bataille, G. (1987) Eroticism (Translated by Mary Dalwood). New York: Marion Boyars.
Bell, D. and Holliday, R. (2000) ‘Naked as nature Intended’, Body & Society, November, 6, pp127-140.
Blocker, J. (2004) What the body costs: desire, history and performance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Broadhurst, S. (2012) Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
►Budgeon, S (2003) ‘Identity as an Embodied Event’, Body & Society, March, 9, pp35-55.
Butler, J. (2004) The Judith Butler Reader (Edited by Sara Salih and Judith Butler). Oxford: Blackwell.
Calefato, P. (2004) The Clothed Body. Oxford: Berg.
Clarke, J. (1999) ‘The Sacrificial Body of Orlan’ Body & Society June 1999 5: pp185-207
Davis, K (2002) ‘A Dubious Equality: Men, Women and Cosmetic Surgery’, Body & Society, March, 8, pp49-65
Featherstone, M. (1999) ‘Body Modifications: An Introduction’, Body & Society, June, 5, pp1-13
Finkelstein, J. (1991), The Fashioned Self. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Fisher, J.A. (2002) ‘Tattooing the Body: Marking Culture’ Body & Society, December, 8, pp91-107
Fleming, C (2002) ‘Performance as Guerilla Ontology: The Case of Stelarc’, Body & Society, September, 8, pp95-109
Gilman, S.L. (2001) Making the Body Beautiful – A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Goffman, E. (1990) Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. London: Penguin.
Goodall, J. (2000) ‘An Order of Pure Decision: Un-natural selection in the work of Stelarc and Orlan’ in Featherstone, M. (Ed) Body Modification. Oxford: Sage.
Grosz, E. (1990) ‘The Body of Signification’, in Fletcher, J. And Benjamin, A. (Eds) Abjection, Melancholia
and Love: The Works of Julia Kristeva, London and New York: Routledge.
Harris, G. (1999) ‘Undecidable Doublings: the performativity of performance in Rose English’s the Double Wedding’ in Staging Femininities: Performance and

Performativity. Manchester University Press
Hollander, A. (1993) Seeing Through Clothes. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Ince, K. (2000) Orlan: Millennial female. Oxford: Berg.
Jenks, C. (2003) Transgression. London: Routledge.
Jones, M. (2008) Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery. Oxford: Berg.
Jung, H, Y (1996) ‘Phenomenology and Body Politics’, Body & Society, June, 2, pp1-22
Lurie, A. (1981) The Language of Clothes. London: Random House.
McNaughten, P and Urry, J (2000) ‘Bodies of Nature; Introduction, Body & Society, November, 6, pp1-11
►Meagher, M (2007) ‘Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: Cindy Sherman’s Serial Self-Portraiture’, Body & Society, December, 13, 1-19
Mulvey, L. (1996) Fetishism and Curiosity. London: BFI
Parker, A. and Kosofsky Sedgwick, E. (1995) Performance and Performativity. London: Routledge
Pilgrim, A.N. (2001) ‘Performance and the Performative’, Body & Society, 7, pp87-96.
Salih, S. (2002) Judith Butler. London: Routledge
Stallybrass, P. And White, A. (1996) The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. London: Methuen.

Stam, R. (1989) Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film. Baltimore: The John Hopkins
University Press.
Sturken, M. and Cartwright, L. (2009) Practices of Looking: An introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press
Turner, B.S. (1997) ‘What is the Sociology of the Body’ Body & Society, March, 3, pp103-107
Wilson, E. (1985) Adorned in Dreams. London: Virago.
Wulff, H. (2005) ‘Memories in Motion: The Irish Dancing Body’, Body & Society, December, 11, pp45-62

Characterising Bodies

Barthes, R. (2009) Mythologies, London: Verso.
Berry S. (2000) Screen Style : Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (eBook).
►Biddle-Perry, G. and Miller, J. (2009) ‘….and If Looks Could Kill: Making Up the Face of Evil in Balmain, C. and Drawmer, L. (eds.) Something Wicked This Way Comes:

Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness. New York: Rodopi. pp7-24.
Bray, W.R. & Palmer, R.B. (2013) Modern American Drama on Screen. Cambridge University Press.
Bruzzi, S. (1997) Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies. London: Routledge (eBook).
Corrigan, T. (2013) Film and Literature. London: Routledge.
Cross, L. (2008) ‘Fashionable Hair in the Eighteenth Century: Theatricality and Display’ in Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (eds) Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.

Oxford: Berg. pp15-26.
Fortier, M (2002) Theory/Theater: An Introduction. 9 Second Edition). London: Routledge.
Gaines, J and Herzog, C. (eds) (1981), Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body, London: Routledge
Harris, G. (1999) Staging Femininities: Performance and Performativity. Manchester University Press: Manchester
Hecht, T. (2008) ‘Hair Control: The Feminine Disciplined Head’ in Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (eds) Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion. Oxford: Berg. pp205-214.
Higson, A. (2003) English Heritage, English Cinema: Costume Drama since 1980. Oxford: OUP
Jackson, R. (2013) Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage. Manchester University Press.
Kaplan, E.A. (1980) Women in Film Noir, London: BFI.
Kaplan, J. H. and Stowell, S. (1994) Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
MacDonald, A (2006) ‘Hairs on the Lens: Female Body Hair on the Screen’ in K. Lesnik-Oberstein (ed), The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair. Manchester: Manchester

University Press
Mangan, M. (2013) The drama, theatre and performance companion. Basingstoke: St Martin’s Press.
McLoughlin, N. (2000), Rock, Fashion and Performativity, in S. Bruzzi and P. Church Gibson (eds), Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis, London:

Routledge.
Peberdy, D. (2013) Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Steinman, L. (1995) The Knowing Body: the artist as storyteller in contemporary performance Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Street, S. (2001) Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film London: Wallflower Press.
Urla, J. and Swedlund, A.C. (1995) ‘The Anthropology of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture’ in Terry, J. and Urla, J. (eds) Deviant

Bodies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Velody, R. (2008) ‘Hair Dressing in Desperate Housewives: Narration, Characterization and the Pleasures
of Reading Hair’ in Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (eds) Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion. Oxford: Berg. pp215-228
Willett, J. (1977) Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Hill and Wang
Wulff, H. (2005) ‘Memories in Motion: The Irish Dancing Body’, Body & Society, December, 11, pp45-62

Gender Performance

Auslander, P. (2006) Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press.
Benyon, J. (2002) Masculinities and Culture. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin
Breward, C. (1999) The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Bridges, T.S. (2009) ‘Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders’, Body & Society, March, 12, pp83-107
Butler, J. (2002), Performative Subversions in S. Jackson and S. Scott, Gender: a Sociological Reader, London: Routledge.
Chambers, S.A. (2007) ‘Sex and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler’s Theory of Sex/Gender’, Body & Society, December, 13, pp47-75
Cranny-Francis, A. Waring, W. Stavropoulos, P. and Kirkby, J. (2003) Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Davis, K. (2002) ‘A Dubious Equality: Men, Women and Cosmetic Surgery’, Body & Society, March, 8, pp49-65
Davy, K. (1994), ‘Fe/male Impersonation. The Discourse of Camp’, in M. Meyer (Ed) The Politics and Poetics of Camp. London: Routledge.
Edwards, T. (2006), Cultures of Masculinity. London: Routledge.
Frith, S. (1998) Performing Rites: on the value of popular music. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Frith, S. (1988) ‘Only Dancing: David Bowie flirts with the issues’ in A. McRobbie (Ed) Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Frith, S. (1981) Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock ‘n’ Roll. New York: Pantheon.
Gauntlett, D. (2008), Media, Gender and Identity: an Introduction, Abingdon: Routledge.
Gill, R; Henwood, K. and McLean, C. (2005) ‘Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity, Body & Society, March, 11, pp37-62
Griffin Crowder, D. (1998) Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body, in D. Atkins (ed.), Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual,

Gay and Transgender Communities, New York: Haworth Press.
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Halberstam, J. (2005) In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York
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Hall, S. (1997) Representations: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Routledge.
Hanson, J. (2007) ‘Drag Kinging: Embodied Acts and Acts of Embodiment’, Body & Society, March, 13, pp61-106
Harris, G. (1999) ‘ The size of the apparatus: drag, masquerade, mimicry, performativity and Bertolt Brecht’ in Staging Femininities: Performance and Performativity.

Manchester University Press.
Hawkins, S. (2009) The British Pop Dandy: Male Identity, Music and Culture. Farnham: Ashgate
Hird, M.J. (2002) ‘Unidentified Pleasures: Gender Identity and its Failure’ Body & Society, June, 8, pp39-54
Jarman-Ivens, F. (Ed) (2007) Oh Boy! : Masculinities and Popular Music. New York: Routledge.
Jefferson, T. (1998) ‘Muscle, ‘Hard Men’ and ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson: Reflections in Desire, Anxiety and the Embodiment of Masculinity’ Body & Society, March, 4, pp77-98
King, T.A. (1994) ‘Performing Akimbo: Queer Pride and Epistemological Prejudice’ in Meyer, M. (ed), The Politics and Poetics of Camp. London: Routledge.
Longhurst, B. (2007) Popular Music and Society (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Polity Press.
McCarthy, K. (2006) ‘Not Pretty Girls? Sexuality, Spirituality, and Gender Construction in Women’s Rock Music’, Journal of Popular Culture, 39(1): 69-94.
McDonald , C. (2010) Rush, rock music and the middle classes : Dreaming in Middletown Indiana University Press
►McLoughlin, N. (2000) ‘Rock, Fashion and Performativity’, in Bruzzi, S. and Church Gibson, P. (eds) Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. London:

Routledge.
McRobbie, A. (1991) Feminism and Youth Culture: From Jackie to Just Seventeen. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Milestone, K. and Meyer, A. (2013) Gender and Popular Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Miller, J. (2011) Fashion and Music. Oxford: Berg
Monaghan, L.F. (2005) ‘Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of ‘Fat Male Embodiment’’ Body & Society, June, 11, pp81-111.
Moore, A. (Ed) (2003) Analyzing Popular Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mort, F. (1996) Cultures of Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentieth Century Britain. London: Routledge.
Mulvey, L. (2009) Visual and Other Pleasures. London: Palgrave MacMillan
Nixon, S. (1996) Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption. London: University College London Press.
Sanden, P. (2013) Liveness in Modern Music: Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance. London: Routledge
Stras, L. (Ed) (2010) She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music. Farnham: Ashgate.
Synott, A. (1993), The Body Social: Symbolism, Self and Society. London: Routledge
Tagg, J. (1988) The Burden of Representation. London: MacMillan
Thesander, M. (1997) The Feminine Ideal. London: Reaktion.
Triggs, T. (1992) ‘Framing Masculinity’ in Ash, J. and Wilson, E. Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader. London: Pandora.
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Wald, G. (2002) ‘I Want It That Way’: Teenybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands’ Genders Online Journal: http://www.genders.org/g35/g35_wald.html
Wall, T. (2013) Studying Popular Music Culture. Oxford: Sage.
Whiteley, S. (Ed) (1997) Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. New York: Routledge.

Celebrity Bodies
Barthes, R. (2009) Mythologies. London: Verso
Bennett, A. (2000) ‘Theorizing Music and the Social: New Approaches to Understanding Musical Meaning in Everyday Life’ in Theory, Culture & Society. 17: 181
Cashmore, E. (2006) Celebrity/Culture, London: Routledge
► Church Gibson, P. (2011) ‘Introduction’ in Fashion and Celebrity Culture, Oxford: Berg.
Desser, D. and Jowett, G . (2000) Hollywood Goes Shopping. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Fiske, J. (1989) ‘Madonna’ in Reading the popular. Winchester Mass: Unwin Hyman
Fiske, J. (1992) ‘The Cultural Economy of Fandom’ in Lewis, L. (Ed) The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media. London: Routledge
Gaines, J and Herzog, C. (Eds) (1981) Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body. London: Routledge
Gledhill, C. (ed) (1991) Stardom: Industry of Desire. London: Routledge.
Holmes, S. And Redmond, S. (2012) Framing Celebrity: New directions in celebrity culture. London:
Routledge.
Hennion, A. (2001) ‘Music Lovers: Taste as Performance’ in Theory, Culture & Society. 18: 1
Hills, M. (2002) Fan Cultures, London: Routledge.
Lewis, L.A. (1992) (Ed) The Adoring Audience. London: Routledge
Longhurst, B. (1995) ‘Effects, Audiences and Subcultures’ in Popular Music and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press
Marshall, P. D. (2000) ‘The Celebrity Legacy of the Beatles’ in Inglis, I. (Ed) The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices. New York: St Martin’s Press.
Marshall, P. D. (1997) Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Moseley, R. (2005) Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture and Identity. London: BFI.
Ndalianis, A. and Henry, C. (2002) Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Sandvoss, C. (2005) Fans. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Stacey, J. (1994) Stargazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Identification. London: Routledge
Stacey, J. (1991) ‘Feminine Fascination: Forms of identification in star-audience relations’ in Gledhill, C. Stardom: Industry of Desire. London: Routledge

Bodies and Boundaries
(n.b. General Readings on gender from Week 2 are also relevant to this week’s subject discussions)
Aoki, D. (1996) ‘Sex and Muscle: The Female Body Meets Lacan’, Body & Society, December, 2, pp59-74
Biddle-Perry, G. And Miller, J. (2009) ‘….and If Looks Could Kill: Making Up the Face of Evil in Balmain, C. and Drawmer, L. (Eds.) Something Wicked This Way Comes:

Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness. New York: Rodopi, pp7-24
Bordo, S. (1995) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Berkley: University of California Press.
Douglas, M. (2002), Purity and Danger. London: Routledge.
Grosz, E. (1994) Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Nead, L. (1992) The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality. London: Routledge.
Parker-Starbuck, J. (2011) Cyborg Theatre : Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
Pitts, V. (1998) ‘Reclaiming the Female Body: Embodied Identity Work, Resistance and the Grotesque’ Body & Society, September, 4, pp67-84
Riviere, J. (1986) ‘Womanliness as Masquerade’ in Burgin, V; Donald, J and Kaplan, C. (Eds) Formations of Fantasy. London: Meuthen
►Russo M. (1986) ‘Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory’ in De Lauretis, T. (Ed) Feminist Studies/Critical Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Russo, M. (1994) The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity. Oxford: Routledge.
Shildrick, M. and Price, J. (1996) ‘Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body’, Body &Society, December, 2, pp59-74
Tudor, A. (1995) ‘Unruly Bodies, Unquiet Minds’, Body and Society, 1995, 1, pp 25-41
Zarzycka, M. and Papenburg, B. (Eds) (2013) Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics. London: IB Tauris.

The Body and its life-stages
Barthes, R. (1981) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Verso
Church-Gibson, P. ‘No-one expects me anywhere: Invisible women, ageing and the fashion industry’ in Bruzzi, S. and Church-Gibson, P. (Eds) (2000) Fashion Cultures:

Theories, Explorations & Analysis. London: Routledge
Bytheway, B. (2003) ‘Visual Representations of Late Life’ in Faircloth, C. (Ed) Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira.
Faircloth, C. (2003) ‘Introduction. Different Bodies and the Paradox of Aging: Locating Aging Bodies in Images and Everyday Experience’ in Aging Bodies: Images and

Everyday Experience. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira.
Featherstone, M. and Hepworth, M. ‘Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life’ in Lewis, M. Johnson, V. Bengston, L , Coleman, P.G. and Kirkwood, T.B.L

. (2000) The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
►Featherstone, M. and Hepworth, M. (1991) ‘The Mask of Ageing and the Postmodern Life Course’ in Featherstone, M., Hepworth M. and Turner, B,S. The Body Social

Process and Cultural Theory. London: Sage
Fedida, P. (2003) ‘The relic and the work of mourning’. Journal of Visual Culture. April, 2: 62-68
Frost, L. (2005) ‘Theorizing the Young Woman in the Body’ Body & Society, March, 11, pp63-85
Hallam, E. and Hockey, J. (2001), Death, Memory and Material Culture. Oxford: Berg.
Hockey, J. and Draper, J. (2005) ‘Beyond the Womb and the Tomb: Identity, (Dis)embodiment and the Life Course’ Body & Society, June, 11, pp41-57
Marshall, B.L. and Katz, S. (2002) ‘Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body’ Body & Society, December, 8, pp43-70
Miller, J. (2008) ‘Hair Without a Head: Disembodiment and the Uncanny’ in Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (Eds) Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, Oxford: Berg.

pp183-192
Swinnen, A. & Stotesbury, J. A. (Eds) (2012) Aging, performance and stardom: Doing age on the stage of consumerist culture. Berlin: Lit.
Tulle, E. (2008) ‘The Ageing Body & the Ontology of Ageing: Athletic Competence in Later Life in Body and Society, 14: 1
Turner, B.S. (2001) ‘Mourning bodies and Cultural Nostalgia’, Body & Society, December, 7, pp97-101
Webb, J. and Byrand, S. (2008) ‘Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope’ Body & Society, June, 14, pp83-98

Bodies, Power and Representation
Bal, M. (2005) ‘The Commitment to Look’. Journal of Visual Culture, August, 4:145-162
Balmain, C. (2009) ‘Oriental Nightmares: the ‘Demonic’ other in Contemporary American Adaptaions of Japanese Horror Film’ in Balmain, C. And Drawmer, L. (Eds)

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness. New York: Rodopi, pp25-38
Berger, T. (2007) ‘Among Others’. Journal of Visual Culture, December, 6: 387-393
Church-Gibson, P. (2008) ‘Concerning Blondeness: Gender, Ethnicity, Spectacle and Footballer’s Wives’ in Biddle-Perry, G. and Cheang, S. (Eds) Hair: Styling, Culture

and Fashion, Oxford: Berg, pp141-148
Fenton, S. (1999) Ethnicity, Racism, Class and Culture. London: MacMillan.
Frank, A.W. (1998) ‘How Images Shape Bodies’ Body & Society, March, 4, pp101-112
Gilroy, P. (1993) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
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