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PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-100252076222
ISBN-139780252076220
eBay Product ID (ePID)70961017
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
Publication NameGreat Big Girl like Me : the Films of Marie Dressler
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectScreenplays, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
AuthorVictoria Sturtevant
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
SeriesWomen's Media History Now! Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-034986
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Rich with archival materials, this marvelous study of Marie Dressler's film career deranges the norm, questions critical assumptions, and challenges our historical comprehension of the period."--Jennifer M. Bean, coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, "An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler--the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood--Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the very idea that stardom is simply an 'industry of desire.'" David Desser, co-editor ofHollywood Goes Shopping"Rich with archival materials, this marvelous study of Marie Dressler's film career deranges the norm, questions critical assumptions, and challenges our historical comprehension of the period." Jennifer M. Bean, co-editor ofA Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, "An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler--the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood--Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the very idea that stardom is simply an 'industry of desire.'"--David Desser, coeditor of Hollywood Goes Shopping
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal792.0/28092
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ix 1. Tillie's Punctured Romance: Genre and the Body 1 2. Breaking Boundaries: The Unruly Body 30 3. Politics and Prosperity: The Body Politic 60 4. Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie: The Mythic Body 93 5. Emma and Christopher Bean: The Sexual Body 126 Conclusion Dinner at Eight: The Unclosed Body 161 Notes 173 Filmography: Dressler's Feature Films 185 Index 187
SynopsisA captivating study of one of classic Hollywood's most fascinating bodies. 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 was never ......, A captivating study of one of classic Hollywood's most fascinating bodies. 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 was never considered the popular ''delicate beauty,'' often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods 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."An eminently good read.--The Bay Area Reporter "[An] excellent, superbly detailed and illustrated book. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice''An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler--the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood--Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the very idea that stardom is simply an 'industry of desire.'''--David Desser, coeditor of Hollywood Goes Shopping ''Rich with archival materials, this marvelous study of Marie Dressler's film career deranges the norm, questions critical assumptions, and challenges our historical comprehension of the period.''--Jennifer M. Bean, coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, 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 was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods 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., In the first book-length 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.
LC Classification NumberPN2287.D55S78 2009
