Star gazing [Texte imprimé] : Hollywood cinema and female spectatorship / Jackie, Stacey
Language: anglais.Country: Grande-Bretagne.Publication: London, New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, cop. 1994Description: XIV-282 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415091780.Dewey: 791.430 82, 23 ; 791.436 522, 23 ; 791.430 97309044, 23Abstract: 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 spectatorship which have dominated the feminist agenda within film studies for over two decades. Drawing on letters and questionnaires from over three hundred keen cinema-goers, Stacey investigates the significance of certain Hollywood stars in women's memories of wartime and postwar Britain. Three key processes of spectatorship - escapism, identification and consumption - are explored in detail in terms of their multiple and changing meanings for female spectators at this time. Star Gazing demonstrates the importance of cultural and national location for the meanings of female spectatorship, giving a new direction to questions of popular culture and female desire. .Subject - Topical Name: Cinéma américain -- Publics féminins | Cinéma et femmes Subject: cinéma | théorie féministe du cinéma | female gaze | hollywood | star system| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Livre | Le Brrrazero Salle de lecture | F167 STA (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 100000001193 |
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| F167 KAP Women in film noir | F167 MAY Cinema and spectatorship | F167 MUL Visual and other pleasures | F167 STA Star gazing | F167 STA Bad women | F167 TAS Working girls | F167 WIL Screening sex |
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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 spectatorship which have dominated the feminist agenda within film studies for over two decades.
Drawing on letters and questionnaires from over three hundred keen cinema-goers, Stacey investigates the significance of certain Hollywood stars in women's memories of wartime and postwar Britain. Three key processes of spectatorship - escapism, identification and consumption - are explored in detail in terms of their multiple and changing meanings for female spectators at this time. Star Gazing demonstrates the importance of cultural and national location for the meanings of female spectatorship, giving a new direction to questions of popular culture and female desire.
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