Ideal Beauty
The Life and Times of Greta Garbo
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the Garbo mystique, a tough negotiator who used her newfound power in Hollywood to develop a distinctly new feminist screen persona. Examining how she was an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth...
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Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the Garbo mystique, a tough negotiator who used her newfound power in Hollywood to develop a distinctly new feminist screen persona. Examining how she was an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century, the book also considers Garbo’s spiritual and sexual exploration away from the camera’s glare.
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PROLOGUEWho Was Greta Garbo?
PART I. THE STEICHEN PHOTO
1 GARBO GLORIFIED AND DEMONIZED
PART II. MATURING
2 CHILDHOOD
3 PUB, DRAMATEN, AND MIMI POLLAK
4 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Garbo and Stiller
PART III. THE STAR
5 HOLLYWOOD
6 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Garbo and John Gilbert
7 FRIENDS AND LOVERS; ANNA CHRISTIE AND GARBO'S ACTING
PART IV. CHOOSING SIDES
8 UNDERSTANDING ADRIAN
From Flapper to Glamour
9 THE PRE-CODE ERA
10 BREAKING FREE
Queen Christina
11 DENOUEMENT
PART V. CELEBRITY
12 SUCCESS AND FAILURE
13 NEW YORK
14 SUMMING UP
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Lois W. Banner
LOIS W. BANNER is a Professor Emerita of History at the University of Southern California. She was the first female president of the American Studies Association. Her many books include Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox and American Beauty.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lois W. Banner
- Altersempfehlung: 16 - 99 Jahre
- 2023, 286 Seiten, 2 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,8 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
- ISBN-10: 1978806507
- ISBN-13: 9781978806504
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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