Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood / / Ana Salzberg
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| Autore: |
Salzberg Ana
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| Titolo: |
Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood / / Ana Salzberg
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.4302/80820973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond the looking glass |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-400-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465022103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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