Acting Naturally
  Acknowledgments

  Introduction
 collapse section1—  Acting Like a Man
 •Contesting Masculinities and Performance
 •Bohemians, Burlesque, and the Performance of Race
 •The Bachelors Watch an "Artiste"
  2—  "Funny Personations":  Theater and the Popularity of the Deadpan Style
  3 —  "Absorb the Character":  Acting and "Authenticity"
 expand section4—  The Expressive Body, Gesture, and Writing
 expand section5—  Mediumship, "Mental Telegraphy," and Masculinity
 expand section6—  "It's Got to Be Theatrical":  Spectacles of Power and Products
  7—  Melodrama, Transvestism, Phantasm:  (Un)fixing the Theatrical Sign

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionIndex
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