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Great Big Girl Like Me
Victoria E. Sturtevant
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Description for Great Big Girl Like Me
Hardback. A captivating study of one of classic Hollywood's most fascinating bodies Series: Women & Film History International. Num Pages: 208 pages, 27 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity.
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity.
This premier analysis of her body ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Women & Film History International
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034282
SKU
V9780252034282
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About Victoria E. Sturtevant
Victoria Sturtevant is an associate professor of film and video studies at the University of Oklahoma.
Reviews for Great Big Girl Like Me
“An eminently good read.”
The Bay Area Reporter “[An] excellent, superbly detailed and illustrated book. . . . Highly recommended.”
Choice "An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler
the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood
Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the ... Read more
The Bay Area Reporter “[An] excellent, superbly detailed and illustrated book. . . . Highly recommended.”
Choice "An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler
the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood
Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the ... Read more