Jackie Stacey

Star Gazing

Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich 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 postwar 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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Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Stacey applies theories of spectatorship to female spectators. Stacey's research analyses what memories female movie goers have of stars Bette Davis and Lauren Bacall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 23mm x 16mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780415091794
• ISBN-10: 0415091799
• Artikelnr.: 21138438

Autorenporträt

Jackie Stacey

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 HOW DO I LOOK?
2 FROM THE MALE GAZE TO THE FEMALE SPECTATOR
3 THE LOST AUDIENCE: RESEARCHING CINEMA HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF THE RESEARCH
4 HOLLYWOOD CINEMA - THE GREAT ESCAPE
5 FEMININE FASCINATIONS: A QUESTION OF IDENTIFICATION?
6 WITH STARS IN THEIR EYES: FEMALE SPECTATORS AND THE PARADOXES OF CONSUMPTION
7 RELOCATING FEMALE SPECTATORSHIP
Appendix 1 Letter published in Woman's Realm and Woman's Weekly
Appendix 2 Questionnaire
Appendix 3 Readers' profiles by age and class: Woman's Realm and Woman's Weekly
Notes
Bibliography
Index