Joseph Roach

The First Actresses: Gender, Representation and Performance
Felicity Nussbaum, Gill Perry, Joseph Roach
11/11/2011
National Portrait Gallery Conference Event
     
This specialist academic conference will develop themes raised in the exhibition The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Speakers, including Professors Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) and Joseph Roach (Yale), will explore and problematise ideas of ‘celebrity’ culture and the symbolic, allegorical and discursive functions of portraits of women players. Focusing on visual representation, the...
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