Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hatch, Kristen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Temple, Shirley, > 1928-2014.
Temple, Shirley, > 1928-2014 > Criticism and interpretation.
Girls in motion pictures.
Child actors.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Enfants acteurs > États-Unis.
Filles au cinema.
Child actors > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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