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Although she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations between these roles and the acting skill that went into the creation of Monroe's public persona. Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe's film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women's roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe's star persona resonated with audiences precisely because it engaged with the era's critical debates regarding femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism. Furthermore, she explores how Monroe drew from the techniques of Method acting and finely calibrated her performances to better mirror her audience's anxieties and desires. Drawing both from Monroe's filmography and from 1950s fan magazines, newspaper reports, and archived film studio reports, Some Kind of Mirror considers how her star persona was coauthored by the actress, the Hollywood publicity machine, and the fans who adored her. It is about why 1950s America made Monroe a star, but it is also about how Marilyn defined an era.

Monroe, Marilyn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Marilyn Monroe, persona, star, sexpot, postwar, gender.

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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

Sex role in art. --- Women artists --- Abstract expressionism --- Krasner, Lee, --- Clement Greenberg. --- Helen Frankenthaler. --- Jackson Pollock. --- Lee Krasner. --- Marilyn Monroe. --- New York. --- abstract expressionism. --- action painting. --- modernist art. --- women artists. --- New York (State)

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théories du complot --- assassinats --- meurtres --- extraterrestres --- guerre --- espions et scandales --- aviation --- religion --- doomwatch --- théorie du complot --- complots --- conjurationnisme --- conspirationnisme --- chemtrails --- Nouvel Ordre Mondial --- illuminati --- Roswell --- ovnis --- soucoupes volantes --- UFO --- alunissage --- Pearl Harbor --- Adolf Hitler --- 11 Septembre 2001 --- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) --- Diana Spencer (1961-1997) --- Amelia Earhart (1897-1939) --- bug de l'an 2000 --- cryptozoologie --- légendes urbaines --- meurtres royaux --- canulars

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prophecy --- miracles --- conspiracies --- deities --- voodoo --- conspiracy theory --- conspiracy theories --- disinformation --- conspiracists --- Protocols of the Elders of Zion --- antisemitism --- Yuri Leonidovich Pyatakov (1890-1937) --- United States (US) --- Soviet Union --- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) --- Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) --- kennedy assassination --- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) --- Diana Spencer (1961-1997) --- Hilda Murrell (1906-1984) --- United Kingdom (UK) --- Dan Brown --- holy grail --- internet --- information technology --- cyberspace --- David Kelly (1944-2003) --- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence when the company town's many competing subcultures-celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients-came into frequent contact and conflict. Hard-Boiled Hollywood focuses on the lives lost at the crossroads between a dreamed-of Los Angeles and the real thing after the Second World War, where reality was anything but glamorous.";

Crime --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- History --- Social aspects --- 20th century american history. --- 20th century film industry. --- american actress. --- black dahlia. --- blonde bombshell. --- celebrity. --- collapse of the studio system. --- corruption. --- crime. --- cultural intrigue. --- dead bodies. --- elizabeth short. --- film industry. --- film. --- found murdered. --- graphic nature of the crime. --- history of hollywood. --- hollywood. --- los angeles. --- marilyn monroe. --- mobsters. --- movies. --- murder. --- mutilated and bisected at the waist. --- national attention. --- popular culture icon. --- popular sex symbol. --- postwar los angeles. --- unsolved murder.