Elyce Rae Helford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324142 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elyce Rae Helford |
| NOMBRES | Elyce Rae |
| APELLIDO | Helford |
| FIRMA | HELFORD E R |
| AFILIACIONES | Hunter College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Jews Online
On Pomerance and Palmer's George Cukor
On Pomerance and Palmer's George Cukor: Hollywood Master Elyce Rae Helford George Cukor: Hollywood Master. Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 186 pp., ISBN 978-0-74-869356-6 (hc). US $120. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer's new collection, George Cukor: Hollywood Master, covers most of the nearly fifty films directed by George Cukor over a period of fifty years in Hollywood. This fir…
The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture
In chapters devoted to individual television programs, adult and young adult literature, and comics, the authors collected in The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture discuss feminist negotiation of today’s economic and social realities through the image of the fantastic female. Senior scholars and rising academic stars address figures from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Battlestar Gallact…
Theatricality and Female Drag in Three Films by George Cukor
This article offers a comparative consideration of three films directed by George Cukor: Sylvia Scarlett (1935 Sylvia Scarlett. 1935. Film. Directed by George Cukor, USA: RKO. [Google Scholar]), A Star is Born (1954 A Star is Born. 1954. Film. Directed by George Cukor. USA: Warner Bros. [Google Scholar]), and Heller in Pink Tights (1960 Heller in Pink Tights. 1960. Film. Directed by George Cukor. USA: Paramount. [Google Scholar]). Across distinct…
On Reznik's New Jews
On Reznik's New Jews? New Jews?: Race and Identity in 21st-Century Film. By David L. Reznik. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2012. 193 pp., ISBN 978-1-61205-071-3 (hc). US $96.00.In New Jews?: Race and Identity in 21st-Century Film, sociologist David L. Reznik explores the persistence of four stereotypes in postmillennial Hollywood cinema. Through study of more than fifty films released theatrically between 2000 and 2009 and 125 characters, Reznik cate…
Figuring Jewishness in George Cukor's A Double Life
This study considers the ways in which Jewishness figures in the production of the 1947 film A Double Life , contextualized within Hollywood director George Cukor’s personal experience, film oeuvre, and the post–World War II era in which it was released. Issues of cultural assimilation and discourses of gender, race, class, and ethnicity are evident in film form, content, and especially process, including casting, direction, narrative, and visual…
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You”
In three classic Hollywood romantic comedies by openly gay director George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, we find constellations of non-traditional performances of gender and sexual orientation. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) offer both overt and subtle resistance to monogamous, heteronormative relationship structures through bisexual and other queerly configured romantic triangles.…
The Stepford Wives And The Gaze
If, as feminist film critic Laura Mulvey posited in 1975, “Ultimately, the meaning of woman is sexual difference” ([1975] 1999b, p. 65), then the meaning of “feminist woman” is a particularly marke
Fantasy Girls
Frankenstein's Daughters
Would You Really Rather Die than Bear My Young
We are only seeking Man”
This essay examines issues of gender representation in Lem’s Solaris through focus on the character Kelvin and his relationships with the ocean alien of Solaris and its reproduction of his former wife Rheya. I argue that Solaris illustrates a process in which gender constructs such as “woman” and the “feminine” are textually encoded in attempts to reconsider misleading traditional philosphical absolutes such as “Man.” By reading the construction …
Feminism and Science Fiction
Would You Really Rather Die than Bear My Young
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You”
In three classic Hollywood romantic comedies by openly gay director George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, we find constellations of non-traditional performances of gender and sexual orientation. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) offer both overt and subtle resistance to monogamous, heteronormative relationship structures through bisexual and other queerly configured romantic triangles.…
The Stepford Wives And The Gaze
If, as feminist film critic Laura Mulvey posited in 1975, “Ultimately, the meaning of woman is sexual difference” ([1975] 1999b, p. 65), then the meaning of “feminist woman” is a particularly marke
Feminism and Science Fiction
We are only seeking Man”
This essay examines issues of gender representation in Lem’s Solaris through focus on the character Kelvin and his relationships with the ocean alien of Solaris and its reproduction of his former wife Rheya. I argue that Solaris illustrates a process in which gender constructs such as “woman” and the “feminine” are textually encoded in attempts to reconsider misleading traditional philosphical absolutes such as “Man.” By reading the construction …
Would You Really Rather Die than Bear My Young
Frankenstein's Daughters
Fantasy Girls
The Stepford Wives And The Gaze
If, as feminist film critic Laura Mulvey posited in 1975, “Ultimately, the meaning of woman is sexual difference” ([1975] 1999b, p. 65), then the meaning of “feminist woman” is a particularly marke
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You”
In three classic Hollywood romantic comedies by openly gay director George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, we find constellations of non-traditional performances of gender and sexual orientation. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) offer both overt and subtle resistance to monogamous, heteronormative relationship structures through bisexual and other queerly configured romantic triangles.…
Theatricality and Female Drag in Three Films by George Cukor
This article offers a comparative consideration of three films directed by George Cukor: Sylvia Scarlett (1935 Sylvia Scarlett. 1935. Film. Directed by George Cukor, USA: RKO. [Google Scholar]), A Star is Born (1954 A Star is Born. 1954. Film. Directed by George Cukor. USA: Warner Bros. [Google Scholar]), and Heller in Pink Tights (1960 Heller in Pink Tights. 1960. Film. Directed by George Cukor. USA: Paramount. [Google Scholar]). Across distinct…
On Reznik's New Jews
On Reznik's New Jews? New Jews?: Race and Identity in 21st-Century Film. By David L. Reznik. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2012. 193 pp., ISBN 978-1-61205-071-3 (hc). US $96.00.In New Jews?: Race and Identity in 21st-Century Film, sociologist David L. Reznik explores the persistence of four stereotypes in postmillennial Hollywood cinema. Through study of more than fifty films released theatrically between 2000 and 2009 and 125 characters, Reznik cate…
Figuring Jewishness in George Cukor's A Double Life
This study considers the ways in which Jewishness figures in the production of the 1947 film A Double Life , contextualized within Hollywood director George Cukor’s personal experience, film oeuvre, and the post–World War II era in which it was released. Issues of cultural assimilation and discourses of gender, race, class, and ethnicity are evident in film form, content, and especially process, including casting, direction, narrative, and visual…
The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture
In chapters devoted to individual television programs, adult and young adult literature, and comics, the authors collected in The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture discuss feminist negotiation of today’s economic and social realities through the image of the fantastic female. Senior scholars and rising academic stars address figures from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Battlestar Gallact…
On Pomerance and Palmer's George Cukor
On Pomerance and Palmer's George Cukor: Hollywood Master Elyce Rae Helford George Cukor: Hollywood Master. Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 186 pp., ISBN 978-0-74-869356-6 (hc). US $120. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer's new collection, George Cukor: Hollywood Master, covers most of the nearly fifty films directed by George Cukor over a period of fifty years in Hollywood. This fir…
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