Abstract
In 1994, Jackie Stacey noted in Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship that “there is a history of female cinematic spectatorship which has yet to be written.”¹ Stacey attempted to remedy this particular lacuna in her own book by focusing on British women’s memories of their cinema fandom in the 1940s and 1950s, through a series of questionnaires and interviews. This chapter aims to build on Stacey’s call to action twenty years after Star Gazing and grapples with this distance in time in two ways.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Star Attractions |
Subtitle of host publication | Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom |
Editors | Lies Lanckman, Tamar Jeffers McDonald |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Chapter | 3 |
Pages | 45-60 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781609386733 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2019 |