‘A Kind of Bacall Quality’: Jamie Lee Curtis, Stardom, and Gentrifying Non-Hollywood Horror moreForthcoming
This article offers a radically revised vision of the nascent star personae of quintessential American scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (refocusing attention towards her widely circulated credentials as young career woman, Hollywood insider, and self-confident humanist), in order to reveal key ways in which the star personae of on-screen talent are utilized industrially to expand the potential audience of low-cost horror films through the premption of deeply entrenched discourses which historically have framed non-Hollywood horror as sexist, amateurish, male-geared product.
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Slasher films, Exploitation Cinema, Australian film, Canadian theatre and film, New Hollywood Cinema, Film Promotion And Marketing, Film Promotion and Marketing (Film Studies), American independent cinema, Contemporary Hollywood, Horror Film, Film Stars, Film History, and Film Studies
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