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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with more motivation, vision for the future, and sense of personal and domestic power than her husband. This article explores the complexities of Jones's star image in 1955–56 through a series of production memos authored principally by her husband, producer David O. Selznick. To a certain extent, writer...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... recognizability. David O. Selznick, for example, sought
to minimize the incongruity in yellowface by casting two Europe-
imported actors for the Chinese peasant couple in The Good Earth
(dir. Sidney Franklin, US, 1937).54 The fact that they were not yet
well known to the American audience and were good...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and
Feminist Theory, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2005), 50.
15. Smith cites “Selznick, Phillip, Janet, the two absent mothers and
even Hitchcock himself” as occupants of the chest. Susan Smith,
Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour, and Tone (London: British Film
Institute, 2000), 72.
16...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 35–75.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and producer David O. Selznick designed and built seventy-five identical colonial farmhouses in locations ranging from Portland, Oregon, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to promote their 1948 comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (dir. H. C. Potter, US). 1 These structures, which showcased General...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
... thoughts of the theater were
to be expunged. Yet after graduation, Francis was as determined
as ever to succeed as an actress. She and her mother traveled to
Hollywood, and Mrs. Kazanjian, without her husband’s knowl-
edge, helped Arlene land a part as a prostitute in David O.
Selznick’s production...
