Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

by Mary R. Desjardins

Book Overview

The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars , Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357895
• ISBN13: 9780822357896
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"