Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 8
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 12
1. ￢ﾀﾜDoes This Film Make Me Look Fat?￢ﾀﾝ Celebrity, Gender, and I￢ﾀﾙm Still Here 38
2. Beauty to Beast: The Rebirth of Mickey Rourke 64
3. Hilary Swank and Charlize Theron: Empathy, Veracity, and the Biopic 89
4. Broken Nose and All: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Performance of Disruption 108
5. Michael Jackson and the Pain behind the Mirror: A Photo Essay 134
6. Adiￃﾳs Margarita Cansino, Hello Rita Hayworth 156
7. Baby, It￢ﾀﾙs Cold Out in Hollywood: Rock Hudson￢ﾀﾙs Multiple Masculinities 174
8. Misfittings: The Misfits as Marilyn Monroe￢ﾀﾙs Spiritual Autobiography 198
9. Hollywood￢ﾀﾙs ￢ﾀﾜProper Stranger￢ﾀﾝ: Natalie Wood￢ﾀﾙs Knowing Innocence and Uncertain Experience 225
10. It￢ﾀﾙs the Years and the Mileage: Harrison Ford Grows Old Onscreen 248
11. Blood, Freckles, and Tears: Sissy Spacek￢ﾀﾙs Surface Subversions and New Hollywood￢ﾀﾙs Abject Feminism 274
12. Love Hurts, but Not Too Much: Julia Roberts￢ﾀﾙs Scenes of Suffering 291
13. Re/Inventing Halle Berry: Mixed-Race Stardom and the Melodrama of Female Victimhood 312
Bibliography 330
Contributors 350
Index 354
Publisher:Wayne State University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780814339404,Language:English,OCLC:930027695
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 box-office success, demonstrating instead that disruptions often shape and direct the star image. Contributors in this collection examine a wide range of stars from the last seventy years. Some essays deal with actors who have transformed temporarily for a role, or permanently, through aging or accident, such as Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mickey Rourke, Charlize Theron, and Hilary Swank. Other essays consider stars' attempts to conceal aspects of themselves from the public in order to maintain a palatable public image, including Rita Hayworth, Rock Hudson, and Michael Jackson. Some explore typecasting and audience expectations, noting how struggles with marriage, divorce, and aging intersect in the images of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, and Harrison Ford. A final set considers Sissy Spacek, Julia Roberts, and Halle Berry as women who reconfigure negative press and restrictive gender and racial expectations to their advantage, managing public perceptions of suffering in ways that flummox their critics. Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor's dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca; Bell-Metereau, Rebecca; Glenn, and Colleen

Rebecca Bell-Metereau; Rebecca Bell-Metereau; and Colleen Glenn

Rebecca Bell-Metere, Colleen Glenn, Rebecca Bell-Metereau

Edited by Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

Rebecca Louise Bell-Metereau

Great Lakes Books

Painted Turtle

Contemporary approaches to film and media series, Detroit, 2015

United States, United States of America

United States, 2015

producers:
Muse-DL/1.0.0

Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 8
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 12
1. ¬タワDoes This Film Make Me Look Fat?¬タン Celebrity, Gender, and I¬タルm Still Here 38
2. Beauty to Beast: The Rebirth of Mickey Rourke 64
3. Hilary Swank and Charlize Theron: Empathy, Veracity, and the Biopic 89
4. Broken Nose and All: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Performance of Disruption 108
5. Michael Jackson and the Pain behind the Mirror: A Photo Essay 134
6. Adiᅢᄈs Margarita Cansino, Hello Rita Hayworth 156
7. Baby, It¬タルs Cold Out in Hollywood: Rock Hudson¬タルs Multiple Masculinities 174
8. Misfittings: The Misfits as Marilyn Monroe¬タルs Spiritual Autobiography 198
9. Hollywood¬タルs ¬タワProper Stranger¬タン: Natalie Wood¬タルs Knowing Innocence and Uncertain Experience 225
10. It¬タルs the Years and the Mileage: Harrison Ford Grows Old Onscreen 248
11. Blood, Freckles, and Tears: Sissy Spacek¬タルs Surface Subversions and New Hollywood¬タルs Abject Feminism 274
12. Love Hurts, but Not Too Much: Julia Roberts¬タルs Scenes of Suffering 291
13. Re/Inventing Halle Berry: Mixed-Race Stardom and the Melodrama of Female Victimhood 312
Bibliography 330
Contributors 350
Index 354
Publisher:Wayne State University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780814339404,Language:English,OCLC:930027695
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 box-office success, demonstrating instead that disruptions often shape and direct the star image. Contributors in this collection examine a wide range of stars from the last seventy years. Some essays deal with actors who have transformed temporarily for a role, or permanently, through aging or accident, such as Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mickey Rourke, Charlize Theron, and Hilary Swank. Other essays consider stars' attempts to conceal aspects of themselves from the public in order to maintain a palatable public image, including Rita Hayworth, Rock Hudson, and Michael Jackson. Some explore typecasting and audience expectations, noting how struggles with marriage, divorce, and aging intersect in the images of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, and Harrison Ford. A final set considers Sissy Spacek, Julia Roberts, and Halle Berry as women who reconfigure negative press and restrictive gender and racial expectations to their advantage, managing public perceptions of suffering in ways that flummox their critics. Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor's dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

The authors "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 box-office success, demonstrating instead that disruptions often shape and direct the star image. Contributors in this collection examine a wide range of stars from the last seventy years. Some essays deal with actors who have transformed temporarily for a role, or permanently, through aging or accident, such as Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mickey Rourke, Charlize Theron, and Hilary Swank. Other essays consider stars' attempts to conceal aspects of themselves from the public in order to maintain a palatable public image, including Rita Hayworth, Rock Hudson, and Michael Jackson. Some explore typecasting and audience expectations, noting how struggles with marriage, divorce, and aging intersect in the images of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, and Harrison Ford. A final set considers Sissy Spacek, Julia Roberts, and Halle Berry as women who reconfigure negative press and restrictive gender and racial expectations to their advantage, managing public perceptions of suffering in ways that flummox their critics"--Amazon.com.

2022-03-08