In the first book-length study of Marie Dressler; MGMs most profitable movie star in the early 1930s; Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dresslers use of her body to challenge Hollywoods standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds; Dressler often played ugly ducklings; old maids; doting mothers; and imperious dowagers. However; her body; her fearless physicality; and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Sturtevant interprets the meanings of Dresslers body by looking at her vaudeville career; her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean; ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity; and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.
#558077 in eBooks 2016-08-01 2016-08-04File Name: B01KYJ6NOI
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