{"product_id":"a-great-big-girl-like-victoria-sturtevant-9780252076220","title":"A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler","description":"In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular \"delicate beauty,\" often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. \u003cp\u003eThis premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an \"unruly\" yet sexual body in \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChristopher Bean, \u003c\/i\u003e ideas of the body politic in the films \u003ci\u003ePolitics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eProsperity, \u003c\/i\u003e and Dressler as a mythic body in \u003ci\u003eMin and Bill\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTugboat Annie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Sturtevant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252076222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252076220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 268","brand":"Victoria Sturtevant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064803012863,"sku":"9780252076220","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7b26708-d551-4fb8-afc0-90a006fd1f8e.jpg?v=1768671129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-great-big-girl-like-victoria-sturtevant-9780252076220","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}