Download PDF by Victoria Sturtevant: A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler (Women

By Victoria Sturtevant

during this learn of Marie Dressler, MGM's such a lot ecocnomic celebrity within the early Thirties, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her physique to problem Hollywood's criteria for major women. At 5 toes seven inches tall and 2 hundred kilos, Dressler frequently performed grotesque ducklings, outdated maids, doting moms, and imperious dowagers. even though, her physique, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick workouts commanded the reveal. Sturtevant translates the meanings of Dressler's physique by means of her vaudeville occupation, her transgressive illustration of an "unruly" but sexual physique in Emma and Christopher Bean, rules of the physique politic within the movies Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic physique in Min and invoice and Tugboat Annie.

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