Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood /

As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence. The contemporary audience's engagement with the experience of these actresses unsettles the traditional model of narcissis...

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Hlavní autor: Salzberg, Ana (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : Berghahn Books 2014.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qddhk
Obsah:
  • Introduction : the narcissistic woman : reflections and projections
  • Garbo talks : expectation and realization
  • Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood story
  • Vanishing differences in Mildred Pierce and Leave her to heaven
  • One touch of Venus : Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the production code
  • "Wherever there's magic" : performance time in Sunset Boulevard and All about Eve
  • Marilyn Monroe : "the last glimmering of the sacred"
  • Neo-screen tests, part one : Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor
  • Neo-screen tests, part two : the search for Scarlett continues.