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Author Russell, Catherine

Title The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (425 p.)
Series Women's Media History Now! Ser
Women's Media History Now! Ser
Contents Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Stanwyck Studies -- A All I Desire: Pastiche and Performance -- B The Barbara Stanwyck Show: Everyday Melodrama -- C Crimes of Passion: A Destructive Character -- D Dion the Son and Barbara the Bad Mother -- E Edith Head: Clothing Makes the Woman a Woman -- F Forty Guns and The Furies: Angry Women -- G Gambling Ladies: Playing Games -- H William Holden: Making Men -- I Illicit: How to Be Ultramodern -- J Jungle Films / White Women
K Kate Crawley: Cross-Dressing in the Archive -- L The Lady Eve: Performativity and Melancholia -- M Fred MacMurray: Kissing and Playing -- N No Man of Her Own: Double Women and the Star -- O Annie Oakley: A Girl and a Gun -- P Paranoia, Abjection, and Gaslighting -- Q The Queen -- R Riding, Falling, and Stunts -- S The Stella Dallas Debates -- T Theresa Harris: Black Double -- U Union Pacific: Unmaking History -- V Voice, Body, Identity -- W Working Women and Cultural Labor -- X Exotica and Bitter Tears -- Y You Belong to Me: Archives and Fans -- Z Zeppo Marx: Comedy and Agency -- Notes
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Bibliography -- Index
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252054310
0252054318