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Diana Dors : film star and actor / Martin Shingler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shingler, Martin, 1965- author.
- Series:
- International film stars.
- International film stars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dors, Diana.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Great Britain.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 164 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Diana Dors became one of Britain's most successful sex symbols in the 1950s and remained a major celebrity until her death in 1984. This book examines both her acting method and her celebrity. It provides a detailed analysis of Dors' performance in a number of her films from across different periods of her career, investigating her versatility by paying close attention to her voice, facial expressions and looks, body poses and gestures in specific moments from her movies. It also discusses the performance of gender and age, as well as considering her later role as a gay icon.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one Stardom and celebrity
- 1 Bright (1946–9)
- 2 Blonde (1950–6)
- 3 Bold (July to November 1956)
- 4 Brazen (1956–85)
- Part two Acting and performance
- 5 Pseudo-star acting in Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953)
- 6 A marriage of method and style in The Unholy Wife (1957)
- 7 Exploiting her nascent has-been status in Berserk! (1967)
- 8 Popping in and out as a virtuosic guest star in The Pied Piper (1972)
- 9 Perfect when poised in Steaming (1985)
- Conclusion A dubiously Dorsian conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7402-0
- 1-4744-7401-2
- OCLC:
- 1343104094
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