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200 12$aA great big girl like me $ethe films of Marie Dressler /$fVictoria Sturtevant
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (210 p.)
225  0$aWomen and film history international
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.
320   $aIncludes filmography: p. [185].
327   $aTillie's punctured romance : genre and the body -- Breaking boundaries : the unruly body -- Politics and prosperity : the body politic -- Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie : the mythic body -- Emma and Christopher Bean : the sexual body -- Dinner at eight : the unclosed body.
330 8 $aIn this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty, " often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity.   This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie. 
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