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Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood / Ana Salzberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salzberg, Ana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.
- Women in the motion picture industry.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Motion picture studios--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion picture studios.
- Motion picture audiences--United States.
- Motion picture audiences.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 narcissistic identification, which divides the off-screen spectator from his/her on-screen ideal. Exploring the fan's desire for a material connection to the performer - as well as the star's own dialogue between embodied experience and idealized image - Beyond the Looking Glass traces on- and off-screen repre
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction - The Narcissistic Woman: Reflections nd Projections; Chapter 1 - Garbo Talks: Expectation and Realization; Chapter 2 - Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood Story; Chapter 3 - Vanishing Differences in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Chapter 4 - One Touch of Venus: Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the Production Code; Chapter 5 - ""Wherever There's Magic"": Performance Time in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and All About Eve (1950); Chapter 6 - Marilyn Monroe: ""The Last Glimmering of the Sacred""
- Chapter 7 - Neo-Screen Tests, Part One: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth TaylorChapter 8 - Neo-Screen Tests, Part Two: The Search for Scarlett Continues; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782384007
- 1782384006
- OCLC:
- 884280135
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