What Price Hollywood? : Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor /

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The gay son of middle-class Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, George Cukor became fascinated with the theater before moving to Hollywood to become a speech coach in the early days of the sound era. Before he died in 1983, he was the noted director of nearly fifty films over a fifty-year period (1931-1981...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Helford, Elyce Rae, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cukor, George, > 1899-1983.
Cukor, George, > 1899-1983 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Individual Director.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Sexualite au cinema.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The women's director and women's friendships
  • Collaboration and chastisement : Cukor directs Hepburn
  • Tone, genre, and the actor's director
  • Masculinity and the man who drinks
  • Edelkayt : a Jewish angle on the Cukor male
  • The theatricality of gender and drag performance
  • Queer musical excess
  • Race, nation, and gendered noir anxiety
  • Ethnic assimilation and 1950s Hollywood.

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