Gloria Shin

Elizabeth Taylor (eBook, PDF)

Icon of American Empire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the eponymous movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful and famous woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation films in the 1950s, via her extra-cinematic image as an exoticized jet-setting wanton seductress in the 1960s, through her repatriation to the U.S. and the election of her pro-military husband to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978790827
• Artikelnr.: 74841219

Autorenporträt

Gloria Shin is full-time instructor in film, television, and media studies in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University. She is a media consultant whose work has been featured on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Beauty is a Rare Thing: Pulchritude, Performance and Elizabeth
Taylor's Body
Chapter 2: Taylor Made: Race, Gender and Discipline in the Plantation Films
of Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 3: 'If it be Love Indeed, Tell Me How Much': Elizabeth Taylor,
Richard Burton and White Pleasure After Empire
Chapter 4: The Most Beautiful Woman Saves the World: Capitalism, the
Maternal Melodrama and the Meaning of Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS Activism