Creating the Couple : : Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance / / Virginia Wexman Wexman.
Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married? Virginia Wexman's acute observations about movie stars and acting techniques show that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of becoming a couple. Until now serious film...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 189 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I Introduction: The Movies as Social Ritual
- 1. Romantic Love, Changing Marriage Norms, and Stars as Behavioral Models
- PART II Patriarchal Marriage and Traditional Gender Identities
- 2. Star and Auteur: The Griffith-Gish Collaboration and the Struggle over Patriarchal Marriage
- 3. Star and Genre: John Wayne, the Western, and the American Dream of the Family on the Land
- PART III Companionate Marriage and Changing Constructions of Gender and Sexuality
- 4. The Love Goddess: Contradictions in the Myth of Glamour
- 5. Masculinity in Crisis: Method Acting in Hollywood
- PART IV Epilogue: Beyond the Couple
- 6. The Destabilization of Gender Norms and Acting as Performance
- Illustrations
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX