Robert Taylor (eBook)

Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood

Gillian Kelly (Autor)

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2019 | EPUB SINGLE
218 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-2315-1 (ISBN)

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The first in-depth study of one of Hollywood's most popular but forgotten leading men

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Because of his lengthy screen resume that includes almost eighty appearances in such movies as Camille and Waterloo Bridge, as well as a marriage and divorce to actress Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood’s classical era. Despite this, he can be regarded as a “lost” star, an interesting contradiction given the continued success he enjoyed during his lifetime.

In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood, author Gillian Kelly investigates the initial construction and subsequent developments of Taylor's star persona across his thirty-five-year career. By examining concepts of male beauty, men as object of the erotic gaze, white American masculinity, and the unusual longevity of a career initially based on looks, Kelly highlights how gender, masculinity, and male stars and the ageing process affected Taylor's career. Placing Taylor within the histories of both Hollywood’s classical era and mid-twentieth-century America, this study positions him firmly within the wider industrial, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which he worked.

Kelly examines Taylor’s film and television work as well as ephemeral material, such as fan magazines, to assess how his on- and off-screen personas were created and developed over time. Taking a mostly chronological approach, Kelly places Taylor’s persona within specific historical moments in order to show the complex paradox of his image remaining consistently recognizable while also shifting seamlessly within the Hollywood industry. Furthermore, she explores Taylor’s importance to Hollywood cinema by demonstrating how a star persona like his can “fit” so well, and for so long, that it almost becomes invisible and, eventually, almost forgotten.

Autor

Gillian Kelly is author of Ray Milland: Identity, Stardom, and the Long Climb to “The Lost Weekend,” published by University Press of Mississippi; Tyrone Power: Gender, Genre and Image in Classical Hollywood Cinema; and Ida Lupino: Multifaceted Performer and Cinematic Pioneer. She has written extensively on gender, Hollywood stars, and country music for academic journals and edited collections.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: ben-hur • Billy the Kid • Breakfast at Tiffany's • cat on a hot tin roofpsycho • classic ladie's man • classic tough guy • Film Studies • Gender Studies • Gone with the Wind • kiss of death • lucky night • Magnificent Obsession • MGM • nostalgic romantic • popular culture • star persona • the seven year itch • The Ten Commandments • westward the women • when ladies meet
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-2315-X / 149682315X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2315-1 / 9781496823151