A Great Big Girl Like Me

The Films of Marie Dressler (livre en anglais)

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de Victoria Sturtevant

Type

Critiques de films

Sujet

Actrice > Marie Dressler

Mots Clés

Marie Dressler, années 30, MGM, femme

Année d'édition

2009

Editeur

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Women's Media History Now

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 208 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-0-252-07622-0

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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 of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.

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