Precocious Charms : Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema.

In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shir...

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Main Author: Studlar, Gaylyn
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Language:English
Published: Berkerley : University of California Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze -- Cosseting the nation, or, how to conquer fear itself with Shirley Temple -- "The little girl with the big voice": Deanna Durbin and sonic womanliness -- Velvet's cherry: Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood -- Perilous transition: Jennifer Jones as melodrama's hysterical adolescent -- "Chi-Chi Cinderella": Audrey Hepburn as couture countermodel -- Conclusion. 
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