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Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood /

In the 1930's, Shirley Temple was heralded as "America's sweetheart," and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple's films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her early career in the context o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hatch, Kristen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: sex and Shirley Temple
  • America's sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the decline of sentiment
  • A terrible amour: child loving in the twentieth century
  • Immaculate amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple
  • Baby burlesks and kiddie kabarets: children's erotic impersonations
  • Priceless: economic innocence and the child star
  • Epilogue.