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Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship
In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1940's and 1950's. Her study challenges the universalism of psychoanalytic theories of female spe...more
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
February 7th 1994
by Routledge
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Wow I must have been quite an intellectual when I was younger....I've had this book since my University days and this is the first time I've read it cover to cover. It is interesting but some of the theories make it a heavy read at times
Talks about appeal of female stars to female audiences, and includes surveys of British women about what they liked about women stars of the 40s and 50s. Wish there was a book like this about the silent era.
reader-friednly, yet discussing movies which are not known to me
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Recommended to Elizabeth by:
_Our Vampires, Ourselves_ fn.52
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