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

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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Auteur principal: Helford, Elyce Rae, 1962- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.