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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christine Gledhill |
| ISBN: | 0415052173 9780415052177 0415052181 9780415052184 |
| OCLC Number: | 22274968 |
| Description: | xx, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The system. Seeing stars / Janet Staiger -- The emergence of the star system in America / Richard deCordova -- The Carole Lombard in Macy's window / Charles Eckert -- The building of popular images : Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe / Thomas Harris -- Fatal beauties : black women in Hollywood / Karen Alexander -- Stars and society. Charisma / Richard Dyer -- Shirley Temple and the house of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- 'Puffed sleeves before tea-time' : Joan Crawford, Adrian and women audiences / Charlotte Cornelia Herzog and Jane Marie Gaines -- The return of Jimmy Stewart : the publicity photograph as text / Charles Wolfe -- Three Indian film stars / Behroze Gandhy and Rosie Thomas -- A Star Is Born and the construction of authenticity / Richard Dyer -- Feminine fascinations : forms of identification in star-audience relations / Jackie Stacey -- Performers and signs. Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Screen acting and the commutation test / John O. Thompson. (Cont.) Stars and genre / Andrew Britton -- Signs of melodrama / Christine Gledhill -- Desire, meaning and politics. In defence of violence / Michel Mourlet -- The politics of 'Jane Fonda' / Tessa Perkins -- The glut of the personality / David Lusted -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification : Valentino and female spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- 'A queer feeling when I look at you' : Hollywood stars and lesbian spectatorship in the 1930s / Andrea Weiss -- Monster metaphors : notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller / Kobena Mercer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Christine Gledhill. |
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