03482nam 2200673 450 991081904650332120200520144314.01-78238-400-610.1515/9781782384007(CKB)3710000000202228(EBL)1644357(OCoLC)884280135(SSID)ssj0001261510(PQKBManifestationID)12486730(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261510(PQKBWorkID)11321249(PQKB)11755129(MiAaPQ)EBC1644357(Au-PeEL)EBL1644357(CaPaEBR)ebr10896766(CaONFJC)MIL633392(DE-B1597)636012(DE-B1597)9781782384007(EXLCZ)99371000000020222820140726h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond the looking glass narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood /Ana SalzbergNew York :Berghahn,2014.©20141 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-399-9 Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.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; IndexAs 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 repreWomen in the motion picture industryCaliforniaLos AngelesMotion picture actors and actressesCaliforniaLos AngelesMotion picture studiosUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMotion picture audiencesUnited StatesWomen in motion picturesWomen in the motion picture industryMotion picture actors and actressesMotion picture studiosHistoryMotion picture audiencesWomen in motion pictures.791.4302/80820973Salzberg Ana1625977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819046503321Beyond the looking glass3961785UNINA