Recycled stars : female film stardom in the age of television and video / Mary R. Desjardins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desjardins, Mary R., 1956-

Series:

Console-ing passions.

Console-ing passions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television actors and actresses--United States.

Television actors and actresses.

Women in mass media.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 Recycled 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, Id

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358022

0822358026

9780822376033

0822376032

OCLC:

900281971