Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship

by Jackie Stacey

Book Overview

In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1940's and 1950's. Her study challenges the universalism of psychoanalytic theories of female spectatorship which have dominated the feminist agenda within film studies for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415091799
• ISBN13: 9780415091794
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary