A great big girl like me the films of Marie Dressler /
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly duckli...
| Основен автор: | Sturtevant, Victoria, 1973- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Серия: |
Women and film history international.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=569664 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Great big girl like me. |
| Резюме: |
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, her body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Sturtevant interprets the meanings of Dressler's body by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index. Includes filmography: page 185. |
| ISBN: |
0252092627 9780252092626 1283583003 9781283583008 |