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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819046503321

Autore

Salzberg Ana

Titolo

Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood / / Ana Salzberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-400-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/80820973

Soggetti

Women in the motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles

Motion picture actors and actresses - California - Los Angeles

Motion picture studios - United States - History - 20th century

Motion picture audiences - United States

Women in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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