Ziegfeld girl : image and icon in culture and cinema /

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture--as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s renowned revues, which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mizejewski, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ziegfeld, Flo, > 1869-1932.
Women entertainers > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > United States.
Racism > United States.
Femmes artistes du spectacle > États-Unis.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Racism.
Women entertainers.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Glory, Legend, and the Ziegfeld Guarantee
  • 1. Celebrity and Glamour: Anna Held
  • 2. Chorus Girls, New Women, True Bodies
  • 3. Costume and Choreography: Fashioning a Body
  • 4. Racialized, Glorified American Girls
  • 5. The Ziegfeld Girl and Hollywood Cinema
  • Epilogue: Showgirls.

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