...Melissa Bradshaw “Devouring the Diva” explores the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva, arguing for a reading of the diva as a figure of feminine gendering and as a stand-in for the fetishized mother whom we ambivalently adore, mourn, and hate. Through an analysis of the...

...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In...

... characters (Russell befriends Melissa [Melanie Mayron], and Peter works with the pro- tagonists Michael and Elliot at the advertising agency DAA). Melissa very nonchalantly tells Michael (Ken Olin) that his colleague Peter is gay, and Elliot (Timothy Busfield) introduces...

... single therapist who speaks the clichéd languages of the recovery movement. That therapist, Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz), is engaged to Bill Harding (Bill Paxton), and she accompanies him on a trip to recover his divorce papers from his estranged wife Jo Harding (Helen Hunt). On one level, the...

...: Routledge, 2003. Pinney, Melissa Ann. Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls. Santa Fe, NM: The Center for American Places, 2003. Prince, Stephen. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1968. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers...

... Homosexuality in the Pathogenesis of Paranoia.” Sex in Psychoanalysis . New York: Basic Books, 1950 . Greenberg , Joel “Writing for the Movies: Barré Lyndon.” Focus on Film , 21 (Summer 1975 ): 47 —56. Greene , Graham The Pleasure-Dome . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980 . Knox , Melissa...

... money wealth (Cadillac again); a yuppie stockbroker taking Actifed; funky characters a la thirtysornethzng’s Melissa (Melanie May- ron) taking spontaneous,photos with a Kodak Impulse camera; parents giving McDonald’s gift certificates for Christmas; thin yuppies with babies eating pure, natural...

... Elliot do some promotional work for a conservative political candidate and Gary begins his ro- mantic involvement with Susannah. In the third, Melissa is hired to produce a photograph for the cover of Carly Simon’s new album, while Michael and Elliot are finally forced to close their ad agency...

... “negative” diva) and as a figure of resistance (the “positive” diva). Melissa Bradshaw takes a hard look at the dynamics of divadom and reveals that The Rose (dir. Mark Rydell, US, 1979) compellingly, and troublingly, represents “the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva...

... Jerome Cohen, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses in Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 7. 11. “The Story of Lift.” 12. Quoted in Melissa Seymour, “Q&A with Rachel Johnson, Director of Henrietta Bulkowski...

... centers of the show; Elliot, Michael’s best friend and business partner, and his wife Nancy; Michael’s unmarried childhood friend, Gary, an English professor; Hope’s unmarried childhood friend Ellen, a civil servant; and Melissa, Michael’s cousin, a photographer who is also...

..., and which he has intended to give as an engagement ring to his girlfriend, Melissa, played by Rachael Harris as a shrill harpy. As the men prepare to leave Las Vegas, the stripper returns to Stu his grandmother’s “Holo- caust ring” (“I didn’t know they gave out rings at the Holocaust,” says...

... German Literature and Film (1991) and Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (coedited with Sandra Frieden, Vibeke R. Petersen, and Laurie Melissa Vogelsang, 1993). 04-McCormick.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page iv 04-McCormick.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page 99 Rape and War...

... city in which they lived. The relationship between Kate Delacroix (Melissa Gilbert) and Carrie Grace Battle (Cicely Tyson) is a study in race and class opposition. Delacroix is a young white woman, whose family is one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the state...

... through the casting of Jason as her test subject. As Melissa Ander- son notes about Jason’s performance in her analysis of the film: If one considers Jason as a player within the “politics of performance,” Portrait of  Jason  becomes a crystallization of what Peggy Phelan, in her discussion of...

... Thorsson, Priscilla Ovalle, and Melissa Stuckey — who helped me shape, revise, and rethink the ideas in this article. Thanks to Carol Ladewig, Sarah Todd, Melissa Sexton, and Ted West, who read and edited many drafts of this article. Lastly...