Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman

Following Mary Pickford's life, this book gives an overview of her enduring contribution to American film and mass culture. It also explores her struggles to surpass her confining public film persona as 'America's Sweetheart', mirroring how women, both then and today, must reconcile domestic life with professional aspirations and work.

Author: Kathleen A. Feeley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/13/2019
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780367097806

About the Author
Kathleen Feeley is associate professor in the Department of History and an advisory board member of the Women's and Gender Studies program and the Visual and Media Studies program at the University of Redlands. She is co-editor (with Jennifer Frost) of When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She is at work on "The Mightiest Publicity Powers on Earth" The Rise of the Hollywood Press Corps in Mid-Twentieth-Century America. A former associate editor of Reviews in American History, she writes and teaches on media, gender, and popular and political culture in modern U.S. history.

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