Elizabeth Taylor
Icon of American Empire
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0747-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0747-6 (ISBN)
Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire examines Taylor's stardom as symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.
In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the titular movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation, via her extra-cinematic image as a jet-setting wanton seductress and oriental in whiteface in the early 1960, through her repatriation to the U.S. in the 1970s via her marriage to and the election of her pro-military husband John Warner to the U.S. Senate, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.
In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the titular movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation, via her extra-cinematic image as a jet-setting wanton seductress and oriental in whiteface in the early 1960, through her repatriation to the U.S. in the 1970s via her marriage to and the election of her pro-military husband John Warner to the U.S. Senate, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.
Gloria Shin is instructor in film and media studies in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University.
Chapter 1: Beauty is a Rare Thing: Pulchritude, Performance and Elizabeth Taylor’s Body
Chapter 2: Taylor Made: Race, Gender and Discipline in the Plantation Films of Elizabeth Taylor
Chapter 3: ‘If it be Love Indeed, Tell Me How Much’: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and White Pleasure After Empire
Chapter 4: The Most Beautiful Woman Saves the World: Capitalism, the Maternal Melodrama and the Meaning of Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS Activism
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-0747-2 / 1666907472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-0747-6 / 9781666907476 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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