Esther Sonnet
Biographic Data
| ID | 658786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Sonnet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonnet |
| SIGNATURE | SONNET E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southampton Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1075-3538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Girl in the canoe: History, teleology and the work of star construction in the early roles of Marilyn Monroe
This essay identifies the theoretical consequences for the discipline of star studies of the manifest disparity between Marilyn Monroe's extensive work as a unknown bit part player and her later stellar celebrity. Monroe's unattributed appearance in 1948 as a pinup photograph in a Gene Autry vehicle stands as a point of origin of her entry into cinematic history. Articulating the significance of this first appearance in relation to her subsequent…
‘Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality
This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint. Focusing on the gendered construction of sexuality in popular fictions, I explore the pleasures of consumption offered to women by explicitly ‘pornographic’ texts and consider how the shift into a culture of ‘post-…
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‘Erotic Fiction by Women for Women’: The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality
This article addresses the material construction of female heterosexuality through examination of the mass marketing of women’s pornography - ‘erotic fiction for women by women’ as exemplified by Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint. Focusing on the gendered construction of sexuality in popular fictions, I explore the pleasures of consumption offered to women by explicitly ‘pornographic’ texts and consider how the shift into a culture of ‘post-…
Girl in the canoe: History, teleology and the work of star construction in the early roles of Marilyn Monroe
This essay identifies the theoretical consequences for the discipline of star studies of the manifest disparity between Marilyn Monroe's extensive work as a unknown bit part player and her later stellar celebrity. Monroe's unattributed appearance in 1948 as a pinup photograph in a Gene Autry vehicle stands as a point of origin of her entry into cinematic history. Articulating the significance of this first appearance in relation to her subsequent…
Art (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Astrophysics (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Femininity (1 works) · Feminism (1 works)