| Acting Naturally |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| 1— Acting Like a Man |
| 2— "Funny Personations": Theater and the Popularity of the Deadpan Style |
| 3 — "Absorb the Character": Acting and "Authenticity" |
| 4— The Expressive Body, Gesture, and Writing |
| 5— Mediumship, "Mental Telegraphy," and Masculinity |
| 6— "It's Got to Be Theatrical": Spectacles of Power and Products |
| • | Symbols and Shows |
| • | Pageants and Carnivals |
| • | Market And Theater |
| 7— Melodrama, Transvestism, Phantasm: (Un)fixing the Theatrical Sign |
| Notes |
| Index |