Ana Salzberg

Beyond the Looking Glass

Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the movie screen as a medium of shared experience between spectator and star Evaluates the fan’s desire for a material connection to the performer Utilises scholarly and theoretical studies as well as reviews and accounts from popular culture Examines the importance of gold-age Hollywood in new media

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781782383994
• ISBN-10: 1782383999
• Artikelnr.: 42380353

Autorenporträt

Ana Salzberg is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Dundee. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and has published on pre-Production Code cinema, Hitchcock's Vertigo, and stars including Rita Hayworth and Grace Kelly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Narcissistic Woman: Reflections and Projections
Chapter 1. Garbo Talks: Expectation and Realization
Chapter 2. Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood Story
Chapter 3. Vanishing Differences in Mildred Pierce and Leave Her to Heaven
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
and All About Eve
Chapter 6. Marilyn Monroe: "The Last Glimmering of the Sacred"
Chapter 7. Neo-Screen Tests, Part One: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 8. Neo-Screen Tests, Part Two: Kidman, Lohan, and the Search for
Scarlett
Works Cited
Index