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Author:
Shin, Gloria, 1978- author.
Title:
Elizabeth Taylor : icon of American empire / Gloria Shin.
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Taylor, Elizabeth,--1932-2011.
Taylor, Elizabeth,--1932-2011.
1900-1999
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.
Civilization.
Civilization.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
United States--Civilization--20th century.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Beauty is a rare thing: pulchritude, performance and Elizabeth Taylor's body -- Taylor made: race, gender, and discipline in the plantation films of Elizabeth Taylor -- 'If it be love indeed, tell me how much': Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and White pleasure after empire -- The most beautiful woman saves the world: capitalism, the maternal melodrama and the meaning of Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS activism -- Elizabeth Taylor by the numbers: the political economy of White singularity.
Summary:
"Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire examines Taylor's stardom as symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1666907472
9781666907476
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1346363034
LCCN:
2022046130
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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