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Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Kristen Hatch
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Description for Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APB; APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 history of girlhood and considers how Temple’s star image emerged out of the Victorian cult of the child.
Beginning her career in “Baby Burlesks,” short films where she played vamps and harlots, her biggest hits were marketed as romances between Temple and her adult male costars. Kristen Hatch helps modern audiences make sense of the erotic undercurrents that ... Read more
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 history of girlhood and considers how Temple’s star image emerged out of the Victorian cult of the child.
Beginning her career in “Baby Burlesks,” short films where she played vamps and harlots, her biggest hits were marketed as romances between Temple and her adult male costars. Kristen Hatch helps modern audiences make sense of the erotic undercurrents that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813563251
SKU
V9780813563251
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Ref
99-15
About Kristen Hatch
KRISTEN HATCH is an assistant professor in the department of film and media studies and the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
"Hatch's work serves as both a specific and well-evidenced case study for scholars interested in understanding Shirley Temple's legacy as well as an effective overview of the changing concept of white American girlhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Film Quarterly
"Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood is a provocative and compelling analysis of not just Shirley ... Read more
Film Quarterly
"Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood is a provocative and compelling analysis of not just Shirley ... Read more