What price Hollywood? : gender and sex in the films of George Cukor / Elyce Rae Helford.
What price Hollywood? : gender and sex in the films of George Cukor / Elyce Rae Helford.
What price Hollywood? : gender and sex in the films of George Cukor / Elyce Rae Helford.
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Publisher
Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
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G 2020/5697
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English
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Physical content
214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The women's director and women's friendship -- Collaboration and chastisement: Cukor directs Hepburn -- Tone, genre, and the actor's director -- Masculinity and the man who drinks -- Edelkayt: a Jewish angle on the Cukor male -- The theatricality of gender and drag performance -- Queer musical exces...
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Publisher
Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Place of Publication
Kentucky
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"The gay son of middle-class Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, George Cukor became fascinated with the theater before moving to Hollywood to become a speech coach in the early days of the sound era. Before he died in 1983, he was the noted director of nearly fifty films over a fifty-year period (1931-1981). He found steady success during Hollywood's Gol...
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What price Hollywood? : gender and sex in the films of George Cukor / Elyce Rae Helford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/5697
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74VKadkEMePX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadkEMePX
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ISBN
9780813179292 hardcover
0813179297 hardcover
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791.430233092
MMS ID
991024321714602626
