Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) - Image 1

£68.00

Wayne State University Press Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Name: Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
Brand: Wayne State University Press
Price: 68.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

United States

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£68 today · previous high £68 · all-time low £62

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 78 days · 78 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 78 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £68 (31 days, 39.7%)

Price range: £62 - £68

Price levels: 4 different prices over 78 days

Description

Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient―the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

Key Features

Gene Tierney: Star Of Hollywood Home Front Contemporary Approaches To Film And Media Series

Product Type : Abis Book

Language: English

Product Specifications

Brand: Wayne State University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0814348203
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > History & Criticism > United States
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2022
Listed Since: 30 May 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Wayne State University Press Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle over Feature Films on Early TV

American Classic Screen Interviews

Blackout – Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema: 1206 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the Archive

Fred Zinnemann: Interviews (CONVERSATIONS WITH FILMMAKERS)

Otto Preminger: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)

Jean Arthur: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions

Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Rethinking British Cinema S.)

An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930

The State of European Cinema: A New Dose of Reality (Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

1945 Birthday Gift Book - UK and World News History

Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America: 100 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

A Guide to Films on the Korean War: 35 (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History)

Immaterial Culture: Literature, Drama and the American Radio Play, 1929–1954: 29 (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts)

The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945: 16 (Film Europa, 16)

The Rout of the German Forces in Belorussia: Operation Bagration, 23 June - 29 August 1944 (Association of the United States Army (AUSA) publications)

Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s

Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity Into Labor

Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema (Women’s Media History Now!)

British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960 (Princeton Legacy Library): 1205

An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies