Beschreibung:
Barbara Klinger
Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalizedcamp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Many Faces of Melodrama1. The "Progressive" Auteur, Melodrama, and Canonicity2. Selling Melodrama: Sex, Affluence, and Written on the Wind3. Tastemaking: Reviews, Popular Canons, and Soap Operas4. Star Gossip: Rock Hudson and the Burdens of Masculinity5. Mass Camp and the Old Hollywood Melodrama TodayConclusion: Cinema, Ideology, HistoryNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex