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OverviewIn the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as “America’s sweetheart,” and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple’s films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her early career in the context of the history of girlhood and considers how Temple’s star image emerged out of the Victorian cult of the child. Beginning her career in “Baby Burlesks,” short films where she played vamps and harlots, her biggest hits were marketed as romances between Temple and her adult male costars. Kristen Hatch helps modern audiences make sense of the erotic undercurrents that seem to run through these movies. Placing Temple’s films in their historical context and reading them alongside earlier representations of girlhood in Victorian theater and silent film, Hatch shows how Shirley Temple emerged at the very moment that long standing beliefs about childhood innocence and sexuality were starting to change. Where we might now see a wholesome child in danger of adult corruption, earlier audiences saw Temple’s films as demonstrations of the purifying power of childhood innocence. Hatch examines the cultural history of the time to view Temple’s performances in terms of sexuality, but in relation to changing views about gender, class, and race. Filled with new archival research, Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood enables us to appreciate the “simpler times” of Temple’s stardom in all its thorny complexity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kristen HatchPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9780813563251ISBN 10: 0813563259 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 02 February 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sex and Shirley Temple 1 America’s Sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the Decline of Sentiment 2 A Terrible Amour: Child Loving in the Twentieth Century 3 Immaculate Amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple 4 Baby Burlesks and Kiddie Kabarets: Children’s Erotic Impersonations 5 Priceless: Economic Innocence and the Child Star EpilogueReviewsWhat a pleasure to see the recent expansion of scholarship on ShirleyTemple. Kristen Hatch's contribution is both substantive and subtle her analysis of gender and age in early Hollywood bears strongly onour current moment. --Diane Negra University College Dublin Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood is a provocative and compelling analysis of not just Shirley Temple's stardom but a nexus of issues around childhood and stardom more generally, including the erotics of performance, male child-loving, censorship, and race. --Pamela Wojcik University of Notre Dame What a pleasure to see the recent expansion of scholarship on Shirley Temple. Kristen Hatch's contribution is both substantive and subtle--her analysis of gender and age in early Hollywood bears strongly on our current moment. --Diane Negra University College Dublin Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood is a provocative and compelling analysis of not just Shirley Temple's stardom but a nexus of issues around childhood and stardom more generally, including the erotics of performance, male child-loving, censorship, and race. --Pamela Wojcik University of Notre Dame Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood is a provocative and compelling analysis of not just Shirley Temple's stardom but a nexus of issues around childhood and stardom more generally, including the erotics of performance, male child-loving, censorship, and race. --Pamela Wojcik University of Notre Dame (03/05/2014) Author InformationKRISTEN HATCH is an assistant professor in the department of film and media studies and the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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