Rock Hudson
Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an ideal that was to be questioned and ultimately undermined during the years to follow by lurid accounts of his private life and his death from AIDS related illness.This illuminating analysis of Hudson's career reassesses the perceived disparity between his public persona and his 'true' nature. Exploring his unique qualities as a performer and exposing the role of his agent, producers and directors in the construction of his image, John Mercer unpicks H…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-50626-9
- EAN: 9781137506269
- Produktnummer: 37942265
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 30 b/w photos
Über den Autor
John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Birmingham City University, UK. He is co-author of Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility (2004), co-editor of the Journal of Gender Studies and one of the editorial founders of Porn Studies.
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