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New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s: Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema

Editat de Pamela Robertson Wojcik Contribuţii de Professor Leslie Abramson, Cynthia Baron, Professor Christine Becker, Dennis Bingham, Professor Kelley Conway, Professor Alexander Doty, Professor Arthur Knight, Professor Darrell Newton, Professor Diane Pecknold, Professor Christopher Sieving, Professor Daniel Smith-Rowsey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011
American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and modes of production emerged, and low-budget youth pictures like Easy Rider became commercial hits.

New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s tells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, considering such Hollywood icons as Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman alongside such hallmarks of youth culture as Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. Others, like Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, took advantage of the developing independent and international film markets to craft truly groundbreaking screen personae. And some were simply “famous for being famous,” with celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Edie Sedgwick paving the way for today’s reality stars.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813551722
ISBN-10: 0813551722
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 46
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema


Notă biografică

PAMELA ROBERTSON WOJICK teaches film and is director of gender studies at Notre Dame. She is the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna and The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Paul Newman: Superstardom and Anti-Stardom

2. Elizabeth Taylor: The Biggest Star in the World

3. Dustin Hoffman: As Artistic as Possible

4. Steve McQueen: Cool, Combative, and Disconnected

5. Mia Farrow: Categorically Intangible

6. Peter Sellers: A Figure of the Impasse

7. Julie Andrews: Practically Too Perfect in Every Way

8. Sidney Poitier : It Is No Great Joy to Be a Symbol

9. Brigitte Bardot: From International Star to Fashion Icon

10. Edie Sedgwick: Girl of the Year

11. Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor : Hungary Meets Hillbilly U.S.A.

In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Descriere

New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s tells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, considering such Hollywood icons as Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman alongside such hallmarks of youth culture as Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. Others, like Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, took advantage of the developing independent and international film markets to craft truly groundbreaking screen personae. And some were simply “famous for being famous,” with celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Edie Sedgwick paving the way for today’s reality stars.