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Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering /
The authors "assemble thirteen scholars to consider fourteen stars whose careers have been defined by suffering on- or off-screen. Together, these essays question assumptions that an actor's ability to project an enduring image-both symbolic and physical-is necessary for box-office success...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn
- Part I. Extreme makeovers. "Does this film make me look fat?" : celebrity, gender, and I'm still here / Nina K. Martin
- Beauty to beast : the rebirth of Mickey Rourke / Colleen Glenn
- Hilary Swank and Charlize Theron : empathy, veracity, and the biopic / Megan Carrigy
- Broken nose and all : Daniel Day-Lewis and the performance of disruption / Dennis Bingham
- Part II. Suffering in silence. Michael Jackson and the pain behind the mirror : a photo essay / Todd Gray
- Adiós Margarita Cansino, hello Rita Hayworth / Linda Rader Overman
- Baby, it's cold out in Hollywood : Rock Hudson's multiple masculinities / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- Part III. Growing pains. Misfittings : The misfits as Marilyn Monroe's spiritual autobiography / Peter J. Bailey
- Hollywood's "proper stranger" : Natalie Wood's knowing innocence and uncertain experience / Cynthia Lucia
- It's the years and the mileage : Harrison Ford grows old onscreen / Virginia Luzón-Aguado
- Part IV. Damage control. Blood, freckles, and tears : Sissy Spacek's surface subversions and new Hollywood's abject feminism / Alison Hoffman-Han
- Love hurts, but not too much : Julia Roberts's scenes of suffering / R. Barton Palmer
- Re/inventing Halle Berry : mixed-race stardom and the melodrama of female victimhood / Charles Burnetts.