Shirley Temple and the performance of girlhood /Kristen Hatch.

Hatch, Kristen.

Shirley Temple and the performance of girlhood /Kristen Hatch. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: sex and Shirley Temple -- America's sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the decline of sentiment -- A terrible amour: child loving in the twentieth century -- Immaculate amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple -- Baby burlesks and kiddie kabarets: children's erotic impersonations -- Priceless: economic innocence and the child star -- Epilogue.



9780813563275


Girls in motion pictures.
Child actors--United States.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .S557 2014