Creating the Couple Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance

Free Download Virginia Wright Wexman, "Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance"
English | ISBN: 0691069697 | | 336 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married? Virginia Wexman’s acute observations about movie stars and acting techniques show that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of becoming a couple. Until now serious film critics have paid little attention to the impact of performance styles on American romance, and have often treated "patriarchy," "sexuality," and the "couple" as monolithic and unproblematic concepts. Wexman, however, shows how these notions have been periodically transformed in close association with the appearance, behavior, and persona of the stars of films such as

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