Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield. ISBN 1604976632 9781604976632 [GB]

ISBN10: 1604976632, ISBN13: 9781604976632, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The sex goddess's seemingly endless power to influence and fascinate, to achieve in a sense her own self-reproduction through many decades of 're-makeovers' reveals her positioning in American culture as not only a lasting image but also as a potentially powerful and subversive force. The sex goddess is often thought by feminist film theorists to be little more than a projection of the male imaginary. However, this book makes a necessary correction to this trend by demonstrating how the actresses performing the role of sex goddess in fact use the feminine imaginary to create their own agency. Through their performance of 'hyper' femininity, and with their seductive power, they exert control not only over their filmic narrative 'targets of seduction' but their viewers as well.The ability to hold their objects of seduction in such thrall suggests that the image of the sex goddess possesses a power far more subversive than what has been previously explored; in fact, to date there has not yet been a critical study of the sex goddess in film. Cinema becomes a place where the sex goddess's designation as sex itself can further suggest her bodily signification as a whole discourse on sex outside of her cinematic representation, thus loading her body to be read almost entirely in terms of sex ...
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