Notes from Text
- 'images of stars construct the fantasies and pleasures of moviegoers' - Link to Mulvey, fantasy.
- Spectatorship theory... 'moviegoer is positioned according to the pleasures of male heterosexual desire'.
- 'Others, while recognising the difference of the stars, determined to overcome it, either by aspiring to the ideals of feminine 'attractiveness' which the star represented'.
- 'Stacey calls these relationships 'cinematic identificatory fantasies''.
- Masochism... 'central to the allure and power of Marlene Dietrich'.
- 'Dietrich added her idiosyncratically cool sensuality which represented her indifference to male desire'.
- 'With masochism, ultimately the victim retains control of the masochistic contract, requiring the dominator to submit to the desire of the dominated'.
- 'styles were designed as spectacle for male desire' - Star styles, icons.
Further Notes
- Stars... 'escapist spectacle'.
- 'identifications with stars motivated by practical actions outside the cinema'.
- 'actions they took to transform the self and construct similarity between moviegoer and performer'.
- 'Hollywood film became integrated with the consumer economy in America'.
- 'films displayed fashions on the screen and there was a movement to transfer screen fashions to the high street' - Way in which a society is influenced to change their appearance.
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