A Great Big Girl Like Me : The Films of Marie Dressler /

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In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly duckli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sturtevant, Victoria, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dressler, Marie.
Dressler, Marie, > 1869-1934.
Dressler, Marie, > 1869-1934 > Criticism and interpretation.
Film
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tillie's punctured romance : genre and the body
  • Breaking boundaries : the unruly body
  • Politics and prosperity : the body politic
  • Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie : the mythic body
  • Emma and Christopher Bean : the sexual body
  • Dinner at eight : the unclosed body.

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