, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Book Titles No access
Elizabeth Taylor
Icon of American Empire
Authors:
Publisher:
2022
Summary
In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the eponymous movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful and famous woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation films in the 1950s, via her extra-cinematic image as an exoticized jet-setting wanton seductress in the 1960s, through her repatriation to the U.S. and the election of her pro-military husband to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.
Keywords
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0747-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0748-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
Product type
Book Titles
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Beauty Is a Rare Thing No access Pages 15 - 48
Taylor Made No access Pages 49 - 88
“If It Be Love Indeed, Tell Me How Much” No access Pages 89 - 120
The Most Beautiful Woman Saves the World No access Pages 121 - 158
