Lucille Ball, the Queen of Show Business versus Lucy Ricardo, the Failed Actress by Aurélie Blot

“…This might be because Lucille Ball refused to be considered as a businesswoman; she wanted to be seen as an actress above all. In this article, I will analyze how Lucille Ball became a businesswoman in spite of herself and how her success as an actress contributed to her success as a businesswoman.…”
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

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Gösteri Dünyasında Kadın Oyunculara Yönelik Cinsiyetçi Yaklaşım ve Bir Örnek Olay: Fat Actress by N.Aysun Yüksel

“…Bu noktadan hareketle,  anılan ayrımcılığa ilişkin Kirstie Alley'in ironik bir yaklaşıma sahip, otobiyografik özellikler de taşıyan yedi bölümlük dizisi Fat Actress ele alınmakta ve feminist bir bakış açısıyla değerlendirilmektedir. …”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…To Yeats, Florence Farr was less an actress and a composer than a priestess and a bard. …”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

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Mask-wearing affects infants' selective attention to familiar and unfamiliar audiovisual speech by Lauren N. Slivka, Kenna R. H. Clayton, Greg D. Reynolds

“…Six-month-old and 12-month-old infants (n = 42, 55% female, 91% White Non-Hispanic/Latino) were shown videos of an actress speaking in a familiar language (English) with and without a mask on, as well as videos of the same actress speaking in an unfamiliar language (German) with and without a mask. …”
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Le Paradoxe de la comédienne : Peg Woffington selon Charles Reade by Laurent Bury

“…At the climactic point of the plot, the actress, a professional deceiver, pretends to be a painted portrait. …”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…The text concerns Roman Polanski’s film Venus in Fur (2013), a multi-layer psychodrama written for two characters, taking place on several levels of human relations: actress vs. director, literary character vs. performing artist, man vs. woman. …”
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Les études féministes au Mirail : quoi de neuf entre 1978 et 2008 ? by Jacqueline Martin 

“…Feminist studies at the University of Toulouse 2, as in other universities, have been deployed since the mid-1970s with the aim of visibility, integration and institutional recognition. As an actress and witness of this deployment from its inception, I present in this article five specific features or innovations in the organization and choices made by the professors of our university between 1978 and 2008.…”
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Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales by Daniela Daniele

“…Being victimized by a Puritan ideal of beauty that no living body could equal, Alcott’s feminized versions of The Marble Faun allude to the American colony of women sculptors led by the actress Charlotte Cushman, whose extraordinary accomplishments in the arts challenged the patriarchal demands of the male gaze.…”
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Le théâtre du Grand-Guignol et l’esthétique du féminicide by Rimpei Mano

“…The theatre's favourite actress, Maxa, "the most murdered woman in the world", herself embodies the aesthetics of feminicide, of which Pierre Chaine's Le Jardin des Supplices offers one of the best results. …”
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HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Martha Coolidge, 1999), demonstrating that the films articulate the network’s commercial strategy, using the life stories of African American icons to tap into a niche market. …”
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Postmodern Dönem Fotoğraf Sanatında Kendine Mal Etme: Sherman, Morimura, Ungun by Zühal Özel

“…Bu amaçla, Amerikalı Cindy Sherman'ın “Untitled Film Stills” (İsimsiz Film Kareleri), Japon Yasumasa Morimura'nın “Actress” (Aktris) ve Sebla Selin Ungun'un “Being Star” (Star Olmak) çalışması örneklem olarak seçilmiştir.…”
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Théâtre et enfermement : la création collective comme modalité de l’expérience d’enquête en prison by Chloé Branders

“…This paper describes an original research posture which, by mixing the object with the method, assures to the researcher a double position of actress and observer, both on the field and on stage. …”
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Reiteration of Jane Eyre's Search for the Feminine Subject in Atkinson's Crime Novels by Esra Melikoğlu

“…In Atkinson’s first crime novel, the amateur detective and actress Julia Land must retrieve a vanished sister and, in the fourth, in her onscreen role as a forensic pathologist the identity of a mutilated sex worker. …”
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…An actress turned playwright and political militant, Elizabeth Robins was aware of the political uses of laughter. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…James tells intertwined stories of a painter, Nick Dormer, and an actress, Miriam Rooth. The characters who visit Dormer’s studio are repeatedly described as lounging and reclining; ‘lolling’ is James’s preferred descriptor. …”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…Godwin (1833‒86) embarked on a month-long trip through France’s Normandy region, accompanied by his partner, the actress Ellen Terry (1847‒1928), and their daughter Edy. …”
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Raconter le territoire sur la scène, dépasser les frontières par la scène by Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti

“…Founded in 2015 as a transnational collective of Palestinian actors and actresses calling themselves “the Identity Lab” (huwiyya fī mukhtabar). …”
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Le partage inégal des « tâches ménagères » by Roland Pfefferkorn

“…During the last decades women were the actresses of the changes that affected the marital relations, and they reached a bigger autonomy regarding these relations. …”
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