Precocious Charms

Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19927241
AutoresGaylyn Studlar (0009-0009-5310-3170, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas324
Fecha de publicación2013-01-15
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPrecocious Charms (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520955295
OpenAlexW4238859988
ISBN9780520955295
Open LibraryOL29667253M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

In Precocious Charms , Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones, and Audrey Hepburn performed girlhood in their films. She charts the multifaceted processes that linked their juvenated star personas to a wide variety of cultural influences, ranging from Victorian sentimental art to New Look fashion, from nineteenth-century children’s literature to post-World War II sexology, and from grand opera to 1930s radio comedy. By moving beyond the general category of "woman," Precocious Charms leads to a new understanding of the complex pleasures Hollywood created for its audience during the half century when film stars were a major influence on America’s cultural imagination

Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Psychology · 20th century · Actors · Child actors · Girls in motion pictures · Motion pictures · Teenage girls in motion pictures · united states · Women in motion pictures

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