The Second Woman: a 24-hour lesson in the gendered performance of intimacy
- Written by Annamarie Jagose, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Nat Randall on stage and screen in The Second Woman.The Second Woman
The idea that femininity is a social performance, while masculinity simply sets the co-ordinates for the social, explains why so many classic melodramas turn on the figure of the actress, such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of...
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