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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483541003321

Titolo

Screening Scarlett Johansson : Gender, Genre, Stardom  / / edited by Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghan, Kirsten Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-33196-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

791.436522

791.43028092

Soggetti

Celebrities

Popular Culture

Motion pictures—United States

Motion pictures

Celebrity Studies

American Cinema and TV

Global Cinema and TV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface – Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghan, Kirsten Stevens -- 1. Why Scarlett Johansson? - Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghan, Kirsten Stevens -- 2. Young Scarlett Johansson and the Liminal Perspective – Whitney Monaghan -- 3. Blank Stares and Blonde Hair: Performing Scarlett Johansson – Kirsten Stevens -- 4. “Certain only of what she didn’t want”: Scarlett Johansson as American Outsider in Woody Allen’s Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Edward Lamberti -- 5. “Who do you want me to be?”: Scarlett Johansson, Black Widow and Shifting Identity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Chris Davies -- 6. On the Off-Screen Voice: Sound and Vision in Spike Jonze’s Her – Troy Bordun -- 7. Scarlett Johansson Falling Down: Memes, Photo-sharing and (Celebrity) Personas - Daniel Palmer and Kate Warren.-8. Crossing Borders, Crossing Genders/Genres: Johansson’s Female Masquerade and Alien Transnationalism in Under the Skin - Fulvia Massimi -- 9. Man, Meat and Bêtes-machines: Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin -



Janice Loreck -- 10. ‘What We Do Defines Us’: ScarJo as War Machine - William Brown and David H Fleming -- 11. The Alien Whiteness of Scarlett Johansson – Sean Redmond. .

Sommario/riassunto

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson’s persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction. Screening Scarlett Johansson is more than an account of Johansson’s career; it positions Johansson as a point of reference for interrogating how femininity, sexuality, identity and genre play out through a contemporary woman star and the textual manipulations of her image. The chapters in this collection cast a critical eye over the characters Johansson has portrayed, the personas she has inhabited, and how the two intersect and influence one another. They draw out the multitude of meanings generated through and inherent to her performances, specifically looking at processes of transformation, metamorphosis and self-deconstruction depicted in her work.