What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor
University Press of Kentucky, June 2020.
Paperback release, 2023.
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What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor takes an intersectional feminist approach to the films of gay Jewish-American Hollywood studio director George Cukor. Chapters study small clusters of films from throughout the filmmaker's 50-year career. Each chapter is centered around a key theme; these range from women's friendships, male alcoholism, and ethnic domesticity to drag acts, queerness in musicals, and film noir.
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Selected Interviews and Articles:
University Press of Kentucky, June 2020.
Paperback release, 2023.
Purchase Information
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor takes an intersectional feminist approach to the films of gay Jewish-American Hollywood studio director George Cukor. Chapters study small clusters of films from throughout the filmmaker's 50-year career. Each chapter is centered around a key theme; these range from women's friendships, male alcoholism, and ethnic domesticity to drag acts, queerness in musicals, and film noir.
- A "wide-ranging, rigorous, and highly readable analysis of one of Hollywood's most intriguing and endearing directors." - Vincent Brook
- A "significant and fresh contribution to scholarship. What Price Hollywood? appeals to nonspecialist readers as well as students of media, American, and Jewish studies." - Nathan Abrams
- "The book ranges widely through the oeuvre, boasting rich readings of Cukor's films and engaging with many of the theoretical topics that have fruitfully occupied film scholars in recent years." - R. Barton Palmer
- "After reading each chapter, there is cause for reflection and a deeper understanding of Cukor's films." - Bill Biss
- "An extraordinarily informative and deftly presented study of one of the truly outstanding Hollywood film directors of the 20th century." - Midwest Library Review
Book Reviews:
- Vincent Brook, Jewish Film and New Media (Fall 2020)
- Midwest Library Review (Sep 2020)
- Bill Biss, Edge Media Network (10 July 2020)
- Christoph Huber, Cineaste 46.1 (Winter 2020)
Selected Interviews and Articles:
- Living Room Film Club, Belcourt Theater (13 Jan 2021)
- MTSU On the Record (8 Sep 2020)
- Full Contact Nerd Podcast (30 June 2020)
- The Page 99 Test Blog (5 June 2020)