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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood de Karina Longworth

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

Autor Karina Longworth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2018

Prezentându-se ca un obiect impresionant pe masă, cu cele aproape 900 de pagini ale sale, Seduction este o explorare monumentală a arhitecturii puterii din spatele strălucirii epocii de aur a Hollywood-ului. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Karina Longworth, vocea din spatele fenomenului podcast 'You Must Remember This', reușește să transforme o biografie colectivă într-o analiză viscerală a modului în care industria cinematografică a modelat și, deseori, a devorat destine feminine. Recomandăm acest volum nu doar ca o cronică a celebrității, ci ca un studiu despre control și imagine, centrat pe figura enigmatică și perturbatoare a lui Howard Hughes.

Simțim în fiecare capitol tensiunea dintre aspirația spre faimă a unor actrițe precum Katharine Hepburn sau Ava Gardner și mecanismele de supraveghere instituite de Hughes, care folosea detectivi privați și informatori pentru a menține controlul. Complementar volumului Howard Hughes de Peter Brown din aceeași perioadă artistică, care se concentrează pe imperiul de afaceri și declinul personal al magnatului, Seduction oferă o perspectivă diferită, așezând în centrul reflectorului experiența femeilor care au navigat prin acest sistem coercitiv. Stilul narativ este bogat în detalii de epocă, reușind să evoce atmosfera platourilor de filmare și a bătăliilor cu cenzura timpului. Este o lectură care pulsează de realitățile crude ascunse sub straturile de machiaj și lumina reflectoarelor, demontând mitul glamour-ului pur pentru a revela o moștenire a obiectificării care rezonează puternic și în prezent.

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ISBN-13: 9780062898210
ISBN-10: 0062898213
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Custom House

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Această carte este esențială pentru cei care vor să înțeleagă rădăcinile istorice ale dinamicii puterii în industria filmului. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care mari staruri, dar și femei rămase anonime, au supraviețuit obsesiilor unui magnat influent. Este un amestec fascinant de istorie socială, biografie și critică culturală, oferit într-un format generos care permite o imersiune totală în atmosfera Hollywood-ului clasic.

Despre autor

Karina Longworth este o scriitoare, critic de film și istoric media american, recunoscută la nivel internațional pentru podcastul său de succes, 'You Must Remember This', dedicat istoriilor uitate sau secrete ale primului secol de existență al Hollywood-ului. Expertiza sa în arhivele cinematografiei și capacitatea de a contextualiza scandalurile celebre în cadre sociologice mai largi o fac una dintre cele mai respectate voci contemporane în domeniul istoriei filmului. În Seduction, ea își folosește talentul narativ pentru a aduce la lumină complexitatea relațiilor dintre gen, putere și celebritate.

Descriere scurtă

In this riveting popular history, the creator ofYou Must Remember Thisprobes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom.
In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer.
His supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes—perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era—commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women. Yet there were also numerous women pulled into Hughes’s grasp who never made it to the screen, sometimes virtually imprisoned by an increasingly paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of private investigators, security personnel, and informers to make certain these actresses would not escape his clutches.
Vivid, perceptive, timely, and ridiculously entertaining,The Seduceris a landmark work that examines women, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its golden age—a legacy that endures nearly a century later.

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The host of the hugely popular podcastYou Must Remember Thisexplores Hollywood’s glamorous golden age via the cinematic life of Howard Hughes and the women who encountered him—sometimes at the expense of their minds and souls
Howard Hughes’s reputation as a director and producer of films unusually defined by sex dovetails with his image as one of the most prolific womanizers of the twentieth century. The promoter of bombshell actresses such as Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes supposedly included among his off-screen conquests many of the most famous actresses of the era, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Ginger Rogers, and Lana Turner. Some of the women in Hughes’s life were or became stars and others would stall out at a variety of points within the Hollywood hierarchy, but all found their professional lives marked by Hughes’s presence.
InSeduction,Karina Longworth draws upon her own unparalleled expertise and an unpreceded trove of archival sources, diaries, and documents to produce a landmark—and wonderfully effervescent and gossipy—work of Hollywood history. It’s the story of what it was like to be a woman in Hollywood during the industry’s golden age, through the tales of actresses involved with Howard Hughes. This was the era not only of the actresses Hughes sought to dominate, but male stars such as Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, and Robert Mitchum; directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Preston Sturges; and studio chiefs like Irving Thalberg, Darryl Zanuck, and David O. Selznick—many of whom were complicit in the bedroom and boardroom exploitation that stifled and disappointed so many of the women who came to Los Angeles with hopes of celluloid triumph.
In his films, Howard Hughes commodified male desire more blatantly than any mainstream filmmaker of his time and in turn helped produce an incredibly influential, sexualized image of womanhood that has impacted American culture ever since. As a result, the story of him and the women he encountered is about not only the murkier shades of golden-age Hollywood, but also the ripples that still slither across today’s entertainment industry and our culture in general.

Recenzii

“Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.”
“The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.”
“A compelling and relevant must-read.”
“A first-rate work of cultural curation, in which Longworth combs the countless stacks of Hollywood memoirs and biographies, with a focus on the pathological predations of Howard Hughes, Texas millionaire, starmaker and film producer.”
 “An astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe filmmaker Howard Hughes. Hardly anyone emerges from the pages ofSeductionunblemished by selfishness and greed once they are touched by the movie business and its promise of wealth, power and fame.”
“From the force behind theYou Must Remember Thispodcast comes a book exploring the glamour of classic Hollywood cinema through the lens of Texas business magnate, filmmaker (Hell’s Angels, Scarface), and notorious womanizer Howard Hughes—think aHarvey Weinstein–esque character decades before #MeToo.”
“Longworth blasts through the seductive narratives propagated by men in the film business to uncover the dark stories underneath.”
“Vibrant… A compulsive page-turner… Much ofSeductionreads like a long overdue act of redress, repositioning women into the more central positions where they belong.”
“Longworth pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s golden age to reveal, through the stories of some of the actresses pursued by legendary millionaire mogul Howard Hughes, its dark and lasting legacy of power inequity, harassment, and abuse.”
“Seduction reads like a scandal sheet tempered with primary and secondary research.”
“A candid portrait of the multifaceted millionaire…As his romantic tastes shifts from known quantities — like Hepburn, Rogers and Gardner — to powerless unknowns,Seductionreveals the root of Hughes’s interest in women: a desire to exert total control, rather than true affection.”
“Audacious and welcome.”
“Jam-packed with Hollywood scandal and history.”
“Karina Longworth loves Hollywood the way it ought to be loved — mercilessly. She is a skeptic without cynicism, a feminist without apology, and inSeductionshe has found the great subject that her essential podcast has long promised”
“An entertaining and timely tour of early Hollywood mores and manipulation. No matter how much you think you know about golden age Hollywood, Longworth serves up fascinatingly fresh perspective on the ways male desire and power shaped movie mythology.”
“Full of insight...illuminating and memorable.”
“A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age… A lively—and often sordid—Hollywood history.”
“Throughout this densely researched and lively book the siren song of the new medium of film is heard.”

Notă biografică

Karina Longworth is the creator, writer, and host of You Must Remember This, a podcast on the secret and forgotten history of twentieth-century Hollywood. A former film editor of LA Weekly and critic for the Village Voice, she is the author of four previous books, including Hollywood Frame by Frame and Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor. She lives in Los Angeles.