Larger Than Life : : Movie Stars of the 1950s / / ed. by R. Barton Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, William A.,; Hirsch, Foster,; Krutnik, Frank,; Lawrence, Amy,; McLean, Adrienne L.,; Palmer, R. Barton,; Pomerance, Murray,; Pugh, Tison,; Sandler, Barry,; Solomon, Matthew,; White, Susan,; Wojcik, Pamela Robertson,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, William.; Hirsch, Foster.; Krutnik, Frank.; Lawrence, Amy.; McLean, Adrienne L.; Palmer, R. Barton.; Pomerance, Murray.; Pugh, Tison.; Sandler, Barry.; Solomon, Matthew.; White, Susan.; Wojcik, Pamela Robertson.
• HerausgeberIn: Palmer, R. Barton,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Star Decades: American Culture/American
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 55

The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s--James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and Gregory Peck--continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emergi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Stardom in the 1950s
• 1. Montgomery Clift: Hollywood Pseudohomosexual
• 2. Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck: Organization Men
• 3. James Stewart and James Dean:The Darkness Within
• 4. James Mason: A Star Is Born Bigger Than Life
• 5. Reflexivity and Metaperformance: Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak
• 6. Audrey Hepburn:The Film Star as Event
• 7. Doris Day and Rock Hudson:The Girl Next Door and the Brawny He-Man
• 8. Marlon Brando: Actor, Star, Liar
• 9. Jerry Lewis: From Hamlet to Clown
• 10. Judy Holliday:The Hungry Star
• 11. What a Swell Party This Was: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra
• In the Wings
• Works Cited
• Contributors
• Index