| Description |
1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations. |
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Women and film history international |
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Women and film history international.
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| Summary |
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, her body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Sturtevant interprets the meanings of Dressler's body by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index. |
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Includes filmography: page 185. |
| Contents |
Tillie's punctured romance : genre and the body -- Breaking boundaries : the unruly body -- Politics and prosperity : the body politic -- Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie : the mythic body -- Emma and Christopher Bean : the sexual body -- Dinner at eight : the unclosed body. |
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Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934. (OCoLC)fst00184974
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Dressler, Marie.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- History & Criticism.
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Film.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sturtevant, Victoria, 1973- Great big girl like me. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009 9780252034282 (DLC) 2008034986 (OCoLC)243602107 |
| ISBN |
0252092627 (electronic bk.) |
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9780252092626 (electronic bk.) |
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