Gaylyn Studlar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaylyn Studlar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaylyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Studlar |
| SIGNATURE | STUDLAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-5310-3170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yet in Thy Dark Streets Shineth’: Hollywood and the Emergence of the American “Christmas Movie” in the 1940s
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: Desecrating Clara Bow
This essay examines the desecration of Clara Bow whose celebrity as a movie star and cultural icon exploded across media in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her symbolic and commodity value was synonymous with the erotic provocations of the stereotyped flapper, but her celebrity transgressed Hollywood’s conventional discursive inscription of female stardom as a glamorous attainment of upward mobility, instead infecting it with themes convergent with eu…
Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
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 proces…
Oh, “Doll Divine”: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze
Gaylyn Studlar is Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she directs the program in film and video studies. She is the author of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age and In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochist Aesthetic. She has coauthored four anthologies, most recently Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster and John Ford Made Westerns. S…
"Masochistic Performance and Female Subjectivity in "Letter from an Unknown Woman
Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse
(1989). Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 2-14
"Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986)
Gaylyn Studlar, Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986), Cinema Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), pp. 51-53
Oh, “Doll Divine”: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze
Gaylyn Studlar is Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she directs the program in film and video studies. She is the author of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age and In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochist Aesthetic. She has coauthored four anthologies, most recently Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster and John Ford Made Westerns. S…
Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse
(1989). Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 2-14
White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: Desecrating Clara Bow
This essay examines the desecration of Clara Bow whose celebrity as a movie star and cultural icon exploded across media in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her symbolic and commodity value was synonymous with the erotic provocations of the stereotyped flapper, but her celebrity transgressed Hollywood’s conventional discursive inscription of female stardom as a glamorous attainment of upward mobility, instead infecting it with themes convergent with eu…
"Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986)
Gaylyn Studlar, Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986), Cinema Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), pp. 51-53
"Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986)
Gaylyn Studlar, Gaylyn Studlar Responds to Miriam Hansen's "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship" ("Cinema Journal," Summer 1986), Cinema Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), pp. 51-53
Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse
(1989). Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of “Femininity” and the Perverse. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 2-14
"Masochistic Performance and Female Subjectivity in "Letter from an Unknown Woman
Oh, “Doll Divine”: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze
Gaylyn Studlar is Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she directs the program in film and video studies. She is the author of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age and In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochist Aesthetic. She has coauthored four anthologies, most recently Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster and John Ford Made Westerns. S…
Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
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 proces…
White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: Desecrating Clara Bow
This essay examines the desecration of Clara Bow whose celebrity as a movie star and cultural icon exploded across media in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her symbolic and commodity value was synonymous with the erotic provocations of the stereotyped flapper, but her celebrity transgressed Hollywood’s conventional discursive inscription of female stardom as a glamorous attainment of upward mobility, instead infecting it with themes convergent with eu…
Yet in Thy Dark Streets Shineth’: Hollywood and the Emergence of the American “Christmas Movie” in the 1940s
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Art (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Hollywood (3 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)