Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Salzberg, Ana (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Berghahn, 2014.
Series:	Berghahn on film
Subjects:	Women in the motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles. Motion picture actors and actresses > California > Los Angeles. Motion picture studios > United States > History > 20th century. Motion picture audiences > United States. Women in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

The narcissistic woman: reflections and projections
Garbo talks: expectation and realization
Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood story
Vanishing differences in Mildred Pierce and Leave her to heaven
One touch of Venus: Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the production code
"Wherever there's magic": performance time in Sunset Boulevard and All about Eve
Marilyn Monroe: "the last glimmering of the sacred"
Neo-screen tests, part one: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor
Neo-screen tests, part two: Kidman, Lohan, and the search for Scarlett.