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What price Hollywood? : gender and sex in the films of George Cukor / Elyce Rae Helford. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helford, Elyce Rae, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Kentucky scholarship online.
- Kentucky scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures.
- Cukor, George, 1899-1983--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cukor, George.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
- Summary:
- Drawing on a broad array of theoretical lenses, Elyce Rae Helford examines how Cukor's award-winning and lesser-known films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres. Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, 'What Price Hollywood?' tells the story of a once-in-a-generation director who produced some of the best films in history.
- Contents:
- The women's director and women's friendship
- Collaboration and chastisement: Cukor directs Hepburn
- Tone, genre, and the actor's director
- Masculinity and the man who drinks
- Edelkayt: a Jewish angle on the Cukor male
- The theatricality of gender and drag performance
- Queer musical excess
- Race, nation, and gendered noir anxiety
- Ethnic assimilation and 1950s Hollywood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 30, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-7930-0
- 0-8131-7931-9
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