Star Gazing
In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1940''s and 1950''s. Her study challenges the universalism of psychoanalytic theories of female spectatorship which have d...
In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1940''s and 1950''s. Her study challenges the universalism of psychoanalytic theories of female spectatorship which have d...
