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Recycled stars : female film stardom in the age of television and video / Mary R. Desjardins.
LIBRA PN1992.8.W65 D47 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desjardins, Mary R., 1956- author.
- Series:
- Console-ing passions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television actors and actresses--United States.
- Television actors and actresses.
- United States.
- Women in mass media.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycles Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O'Hara's high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine Confidential, to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female stars' resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images across emerging media. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- "The elegance...is almost overwhelming" : glamour and discursive struggles over female stardom in early television
- Norma Desmond, your spell is everywhere : the time and place of the female film star in 1950s television and film
- Maureen O'Hara's "confidential" life : recycling Hollywood film stars in the 1950s through scandalous gossip and moral biography
- After the laughter : recycling Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as a star couple
- Star bodies, star bios : stardom, gender, and identity politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357896
- 0822357895
- 9780822358022
- 0822358026
- 9780822376033
- 0822376032
- OCLC:
- 881208794
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