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Books by Kristen Hatch
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines Shirley Temple’s stardom in the context o... more Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines Shirley Temple’s stardom in the context of performances of childhood on stage and screen from the 19th century through the 1930s. Drawing on reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and promotional material, the book argues that Temple’s star persona emerged out of a long tradition whereby white girlhood was so firmly associated with redemptive innocence that girl stars were imagined to have a transformative effect both on and off screen. For example, the press celebrated adult men’s expressions of love for child performers as a sign of the girls’ ability to tame men’s carnal desires. The book seeks to understand the role that white girls’ performances of innocence played in negotiating social change in the early twentieth century. In addition to male fandom, chapters consider Temple and Mary Pickford in relation to changing taste cultures; children’s impersonations of adult sexuality; and white girls’ role in black performance.
Articles by Kristen Hatch
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime On Screen
Sugar, spice, and everything nice: cinemas of girlhood, Jan 1, 2002
concept of landscape in film is more than a background for action; landscape can also be a dynami... more concept of landscape in film is more than a background for action; landscape can also be a dynamic center of cinematic action in itself. Siegfried Kracauer in "The Establishment of Physical Existence" explores film as a "recording and revealing" art: "Any camera revelation involves recording, but recording on its part need not be revealing" (Kracauer 293). Certainly in films of the year, whether black-and-white or Technicolor and cutting across genres and settings, landscape presented viewers with terrains of experience that went beyond recording into revelation.
Reality Squared: Televisual Discourses on the Real
Times columnist Maureen Dowd despairs over the erosion of feminist values: "Maybe we should have ... more Times columnist Maureen Dowd despairs over the erosion of feminist values: "Maybe we should have known that the story of women's progress would be more of a zigzag than a superhighway, that the triumph of feminism would last a nanosecond while the backlash lasted 40 years."I Her central concerns are women's willingness to embrace domesticity rather than career success, and men's unwillingness to embrace successful women. Dowd points to several studies that appear to support her contention that men would rather marry their secretaries than their bosses. A University of Michigan study, for example, found that male undergraduates would prefer marrying subordinates to marrying their supervisors; "Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them:'2 And a 2005 report by British researchers claims that men's marriage prospects increase by thirty-five percent for every sixteenpoint rise in their I.Q., whereas women's prospects decrease by forty percent for every sixteen-point jump in theirs. Apparently, smart women don't get married.
Other Written Work by Kristen Hatch
Papers by Kristen Hatch
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2011
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines Shirley Temple’s stardom in the context o... more Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines Shirley Temple’s stardom in the context of performances of childhood on stage and screen from the 19th century through the 1930s. Drawing on reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and promotional material, the book argues that Temple’s star persona emerged out of a long tradition whereby white girlhood was so firmly associated with redemptive innocence that girl stars were imagined to have a transformative effect both on and off screen. For example, the press celebrated adult men’s expressions of love for child performers as a sign of the girls’ ability to tame men’s carnal desires. The book seeks to understand the role that white girls’ performances of innocence played in negotiating social change in the early twentieth century. In addition to male fandom, chapters consider Temple and Mary Pickford in relation to changing taste cultures; children’s impersonations of adult sexuality; and white girls’ role in black performance.
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime On Screen
Sugar, spice, and everything nice: cinemas of girlhood, Jan 1, 2002
concept of landscape in film is more than a background for action; landscape can also be a dynami... more concept of landscape in film is more than a background for action; landscape can also be a dynamic center of cinematic action in itself. Siegfried Kracauer in "The Establishment of Physical Existence" explores film as a "recording and revealing" art: "Any camera revelation involves recording, but recording on its part need not be revealing" (Kracauer 293). Certainly in films of the year, whether black-and-white or Technicolor and cutting across genres and settings, landscape presented viewers with terrains of experience that went beyond recording into revelation.
Reality Squared: Televisual Discourses on the Real
Times columnist Maureen Dowd despairs over the erosion of feminist values: "Maybe we should have ... more Times columnist Maureen Dowd despairs over the erosion of feminist values: "Maybe we should have known that the story of women's progress would be more of a zigzag than a superhighway, that the triumph of feminism would last a nanosecond while the backlash lasted 40 years."I Her central concerns are women's willingness to embrace domesticity rather than career success, and men's unwillingness to embrace successful women. Dowd points to several studies that appear to support her contention that men would rather marry their secretaries than their bosses. A University of Michigan study, for example, found that male undergraduates would prefer marrying subordinates to marrying their supervisors; "Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them:'2 And a 2005 report by British researchers claims that men's marriage prospects increase by thirty-five percent for every sixteenpoint rise in their I.Q., whereas women's prospects decrease by forty percent for every sixteen-point jump in theirs. Apparently, smart women don't get married.
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2011