Precocious charms
Subtitle: stars performing girlhood in classical Hollywood cinema
By: Gaylyn Studlar
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780520255579; 9780520274242
Subjects: Motion pictures; Teenage girls in motion pictures; Child actors; Girls in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze; title: Cosseting the nation, or, how to conquer fear itself with Shirley Temple; title: "The little girl with the big voice": Deanna Durbin and sonic womanliness; title: Velvet's cherry: Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood; title: Perilous transition: Jennifer Jones as melodrama's hysterical adolescent; title: "Chi-Chi Cinderella": Audrey Hepburn as couture countermodel; title: Conclusion.