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Recycled Stars – Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video: Console-ing Passions

Autor Mary R. Desjardins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 2015
The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In "Recycled Stars," Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O Hara s high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine "Confidential," to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers, video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female stars resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images across emerging media."
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ISBN-13: 9780822357896
ISBN-10: 0822357895
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. "The Elegance . . . Is Almost Overwhelming": Glamour and Discursive Struggles over Female Stardom in Early Television 13

2. Norma Desmond, Your Spell Is Everywhere: The Time and Place of the Female Film Star in 1950s Television and Film 57

3. Maureen O'Hara's "Confidential" Life: Recycling Hollywood Film Stars in the 1950s through Scandalous Gossip and Moral Biography 99

4. After the Laughter: Recycling Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as a Star Couple 143

5. Star Bodies, Star Bios: Stardom, Gender, and Identity Politics 191

Conclusion 243

Notes 253

Select Bibliography 295

Index 305