Desjardins Mary R. Desjardins

Recycled Stars (eBook, PDF)

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822376033
• Artikelnr.: 54681101

Autorenporträt

Mary R. Desjardins

Inhaltsangabe

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