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Star gazing : Hollywood cinema and female spectatorship

By Stacey , Jackie

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0-415-09178-0, 9780415091787, 9780415091794, 0-415-09179-9, 978-1-136-14212-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2724724 bytes)
Pages
282\540
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Star-Gazing puts female spectators into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates the place of movie stars - Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Deanna Durbin - in women's memories of wartime and post-war Britain, when cinema-going was at an all-time high. Demonstrating the importance of cultural and national location, Stacey focuses on three key processes of spectatorship - escapism, identification and consumption. Her study challenges the universalism of the psychoanalytic approach which has dominated the feminist agenda within film studies for two decades, and gives a new direction to questions of popular culture, female pleasure and female desire

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