Recycled Stars : Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video /

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The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of fem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Desjardins, Mary R., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performing Arts.
Kvinnor och massmedia, USA.
Könsroller på film, USA.
Kvinnor på film, USA.
Women in mass media.
Television actors and actresses.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Femmes dans les medias.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States.
Television actors and actresses > United States.
United States.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The elegance ... is almost overwhelming" : glamour and discursive struggles over female stardom in early television
  • Norma Desmond, your spell is everywhere : the time and place of the female film star in 1950s television and film
  • Maureen O'Hara's "confidential" life : recycling Hollywood film stars in the 1950s through scandalous gossip and moral biography
  • After the laughter : recycling Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as a star couple
  • Star bodies, star bios : stardom, gender, and identity politics.

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