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Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hatch, Kristen
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.