... with Francis Ford, is one of many “highly significant early female figures who have received only cursory attention in the histories of cinema.” Photo courtesy Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive Introduction: Female Stardom and Early Film History Diane Negra Designed to explore specific...

...Usha Iyer Though popular Hindi cinema is frequently identified by its song-and-dance sequences, little has been written specifically about film dance. This article analyzes film dance and female stardom in Hindi films of the late 1980s and 1990s through an examination of the star text of Madhuri...

... beautification. With a wardrobe that anticipated the ready-to-wear women’s fashions she went on to create, Fox costume designer Bonnie Cashin refashioned Tierney into an “all-American” war-time working woman. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 female stardom costuming Bonnie Cashin Hollywood World...

... journals and anthologies. Her books Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video and Dietrich Icon (coedited with Gerd Gemünden) are forthcoming. Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, US, 1949) was a popular film at repertory theaters in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

... public performances of the “pri- vate” self coalesced as obligatory and defining elements of female stardom. It’s Time (2003), a graphic piece from the parody series House for Josephine Baker by contemporary architect Darell Wayne Fields, appropriates the famous 1928 Adolf...

... of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), coeditor, with Jennifer Bean, of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002), and the editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture (2006). Along with Yvonne Tasker...

...Mary Desjardins Camera Obscura 2004 Mary Desjardins is associate professor of film and television studies at Dartmouth College. She is currently revising her forthcoming book, titled Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video , and has published in journals...

..., generosity, and risk missing from contemporary female stardom in an era of homogenized postfeminism. There is indeed something cosmically right about your return to the public eye with My Life So Far — a feminist classic if there ever was one — while our amnesiac American...

...Diane Negra Camera Obscura 2001 Diane Negra is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of North Texas. She is author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (forthcoming from Routledge) and coeditor with Jennifer Bean...

...Lynne Joyrich Recently, there has been an explosion of charges of sexual violence and assault within the worlds of media, journalism, and entertainment, with female stars leading the way in making these charges of sexual misconduct public. Indeed, stars—located at precisely the boundaries...

... [Movie Weekly] 1.34 (1931):15–17. 28. Gunning, “Aesthetic of Astonishment,” 43. 29. Zhong Yuan, “Guan ‘Yingmu yanshi’ hou,” 16–17. 30. For a perceptive study on female stardom and vernacular The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture • 261 modernism in Chinese...

... is ready-made to replace Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body • 39 the “tiny, frail human” figure that Benjamin envisioned under attack in a modern industrial landscape,75 hers is a belligerent female variable in a cultural aesthetic field strewn with reimag- ined yet...

... on these suffrage stars could propel one to suffrage fandom. I would argue that these modes of desire attached to gendered looking relations served as an informative discourse surrounding the rise of other female stars of the era such as Bara. What is nor- mally kept distinct by mapping stardom...

... famous for being petite, in a similar way. 38. Diane Negra, Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (New York: Routledge, 2001), 33. 39. See, for example, Louise Scher, “A Flower of  Japan,” Photoplay Magazine, in Sessue Hayakawa Clipping File, WCFTR...

... is not altogether new. What has been overlooked in most histories of US cinema and in most contemporary works on stardom, however, is the fact that the absence of a star’s body and the presence of its double or substitute is, and has been, crucial not only...

... Iyer Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema. No. 90: pp. 129 – 59 Jennifer Lynn Jones and Brenda R. Weber Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated...

... heroine, but despite Gardner’s enormously popular star image, there were more shots of charging bulls and drunken middle- aged men than of her.51 Selznick was convinced that it was the power of female stardom and literary properties that drove Hollywood success and that his commitment...

... of the very few—female or male—able to sustain stardom for more than twenty years. Also known as Gladys Smith of Toronto, Canada, Mary Pickford became a stage actress at age six (published age five). She first appeared in film in the one-reelers of American Biograph in the Spring of 1909. In the 1910s...

..., but a little stand-up comedy, a pie-eating contest, female oil wrestling, and a Q & A session at the end.1 Until recently, he was also the subject of a popular Web site, wco.com/~gruebnst/ron/index.html, which had been main- tained for several years by a devoted male fan who catalogued Jeremy’s film...

... has become a culturally accepted shorthand for weak and failed masculinity. Putting these two elements into discussion, this history of Alda's politics and stardom suggests that his efforts toward equality may have always had more in common with “men's movement” philosophies than with breaking down...