Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood /

Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood / / Kristen Hatch.

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In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as "America's sweetheart," and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple's films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her early career in the context of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Hatch, Kristen,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 26 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Sex and Shirley Temple
  • 1. America's Sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the "Decline of Sentiment"
  • 2. "A Terrible Amour": Child Loving in the Twentieth Century
  • 3. Immaculate Amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple
  • 4. Baby Burlesks and Kiddie Kabarets: Children's Erotic Impersonations
  • 5. Economic Innocence: The Paradox of the Performing Child
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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