A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250 films from Sylvia Scarlett to The Crying Game.
A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250...
This work provides a presentation of Simone Weil's life, work and her contributions to feminist thought. The authors seek to make her complex and sometimes elusive ideas accessible to readers, and offer their own interpretation of her work, delineating how Weil's ideas evolved.
This work provides a presentation of Simone Weil's life, work and her contributions to feminist thought. The authors seek to make her complex and some...
Rebecca Bell-Metereau Colleen Glenn Nina K. Martin
Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor's real life. In Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering, editors Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn assemble thirteen scholars to consider fourteen stars whose careers have been defined by suffering on- or off-screen. Together, these essays question assumptions that an actor's ability to project an enduring image--both symbolic and physical--is necessary for...
Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in...
