The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck

Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star

Catherine Russell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04504-2 (ISBN)

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From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell’s A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the America of her times. Russell examines Stanwyck’s work onscreen against the backdrop of costuming and other aspects of filmmaking. But she also views the actress’s off-screen performance within the Hollywood networks that made her an industry favorite and longtime cornerstone of the entertainment community. Russell’s montage approach coalesces into an engrossing portrait of a singular artist whose intelligence and savvy placed her center-stage in the production of her films and in the debates around women, femininity, and motherhood that roiled mid-century America. Original and rich, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck is an essential and entertaining reexamination of an enduring Hollywood star.

Catherine Russell is Distinguished University Research Professor of Cinema at Concordia University. Her books include Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices and Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited.

Acknowledgments Introduction to Stanwyck Studies

A         All I Desire: Pastiche and Performance
B         The Barbara Stanwyck Show: Everyday Melodrama
C         Crimes of Passion: A Destructive Character
D         Dion the Son, and Barbara the Bad Mother
E          Edith Head: Clothing Makes the Woman a Woman
F          Forty Guns and The Furies: Angry Women
G         Gambling Ladies: Playing Games
H         William Holden: Making Men
I           Illicit: How to be Ultramodern
J          Jungle Films/White Women
K         Kate Crawley: Cross-Dressing in the Archive
L          The Lady Eve: Performativity and Melancholia
M        Fred MacMurray: Kissing and Playing
N         No Man of Her Own: Double Women and the Star
O         Annie Oakley: A Girl and a Gun
P          Paranoia, Abjection, and Gaslighting
Q         The Queen
R         Riding, Falling, and Stunts
S          The Stella Dallas Debates
T          Theresa Harris: Black Double
U         Union Pacific: Unmaking History
V         Voice, Body, Identity
W        Working Women and Cultural Labor
X         Exotica and Bitter Tears
Y         You Belong to Me: Archives and Fans
Z          Zeppo Marx: Comedy and Agency

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Women’s Media History Now!
Zusatzinfo	75 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-04504-1 / 0252045041
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04504-2 / 9780252045042
Zustand	Neuware