Femininity, stardom and the everyday : a comparative account of the French female cinema star and the Hollywood female cinema star in French cultural discourses of the 1950s

This thesis explores the links between ideology, stardom, nationality and the everyday. It argues that as France underwent rapid economic expansion and technical modernisation in the 1950s, everyday life was subsequently rendered `unfamiliar' whilst simultaneously retaining its banal quotidian...

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Main Author: Handyside, Fiona Jean
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2002
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404572