Reframing Vivien Leigh
Stardom, Gender, and the Archive
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 April 2021
- ISBN 9780190906504
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 159x241x19 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 illustrations 114
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Short description:
Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. It offers a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject, examining collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her in archives and museums around the world.
MoreLong description:
Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject. The book examines the collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her, exploring material documents collated by her own hand and by those who worked with her. The book also examines the collection practices of those who have developed deep, long-standing fandoms of her life and work. To do so, the book draws upon new oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and examines a variety of archived correspondence, items of dress and costume, script annotations, photography, press clippings, props and memorabilia. It argues that such material has the potential to produce a new interpretation of Leigh as a creative laborer. As such, the book casts new light on the labor of archiving itself and the significance of archival processes and practices to contemporary feminist film historiography.
Most importantly, Vivien Leigh is presented here as a much more complex, intelligent woman than the generally accepted image of Screen Goddess, Tormented Beauty, and Great Lady of the Stage. Ms. Stead has created an unforgettable portrait of a professionally triumphant, privately tragic life.
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations
Note on sources
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Into the archives
Part I: Stardom, Gender and the Archive
Chapter 1: 'A consummate actress, hampered by beauty': archiving stage and screencraft
Chapter 2: Collaboration, adaptation and unmade projects
Chapter 3: Documenting other roles: alternative star labor
Part II: Archival Legacies
Chapter 4: 'Her sort of trouble': archiving breakdown
Chapter 5: The Posthumous archive: collecting, collectors and memorabilia
Chapter 6: 'The Vivien Leigh Room': memorializing a local star
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
