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Hardback. New. The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences' psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O'Hara's high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine Confidential, to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers, video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female stars' resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images…
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Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video Hardcover - 2015
by Mary R. Desjardins
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- Title Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video
- Author Mary R. Desjardins
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date 2015-03-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780822357896 / 0822357895
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.88 x 0.85 in (23.11 x 17.48 x 2.16 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Film
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - United, Television actors and actresses - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014031331
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.450
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