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Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900–1950 book cover

1st Edition

Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900–1950

Edited By María Cristina C. Mabrey, Leticia Pérez Alonso Copyright 2022
324 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified the rise and consolidation of media technologies. Their pioneering work as film stars, writers, directors, designers and producers as well as their endeavors to bridge the gap between the avant-garde... Read more

Introduction

María Cristina C. Mabrey and Leticia Pérez Alonso

Part 1: Women, Vanguardism and the Film/Advertising Industries

1. Silent Cinema and the Avant-Garde (1910–1939): The Provocative Advent of Mass Culture and Women’s Reformulation of Visual Arts

María Cristina C. Mabrey

2. Women Behind the Camera: How Lucia Schulz and Hortense Ribbentrop-Leudesdorff Changed the History of Photography and Cinematography

Jessica Camargo Molano and Alfonso Amendola

3. On-Screen Femininity Deconstructed: Garbo’s Greta, Khokhlova’s Edith and H.D.’s Astrid

Zlatina Nikolova

Part 2: Archetypal Femininity and Its Contradictions in Mexican, Italian and Hindi Cinema

4. The Representation of Women and the Racial Problem in La Llorona (1933) by Ramón Peón

Sabino Luévano-Ortega

5. Shady Women in Post-War Italian Cinema

Cristina Jandelli

6. Deconstructing Femininity and Progression of Women in Twentieth-Century Bollywood Films

Darshana Chakrabarty

Part 3: Cultural Icons: Problematizing the New Woman Narratives

7. Female Celebrity and the New Woman: Artistic and Gendered Reflexivity in Greta Garbo, Cóncha Méndez and Maruja Mallo

David Wood

8. Blue Angel as Red Nurse: Nazis’ Infatuation with Marlene Dietrich

Felicia Cosey

9. Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and the Gendered Agency of Screwball Comedies

Jenny Platz

Part 4: Visual Pleasure and the Counter-Gaze

10. To Have and Not Have Lauren Bacall

John Hillman

11. Fetishism and the Male Gaze in Jaime Torres Bodet’s Day Star

Chrystian Zegarra

12. Mina Loy, Vachel Lindsay and Hollywood Celebrity Culture: Responses to the Male Gaze in Modernist Poetry

Leticia Pérez Alonso

Epilogue

Leticia Pérez Alonso

Biography

María Cristina C. Mabrey is a retired Full Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures which includes foreign languages and Comparative Literature, and also affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, at the University of South Carolina.

Leticia Pérez Alonso is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Modern Foreign Languages and Speech Communication at Jackson State University, and a past Fulbright and DAAD scholar.

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