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ToolsStead, Lisa (2020) Archiving star labour: framing Vivien Leigh. Women's History Review, 29 (5). pp. 860-874. ISSN 0961-2025
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Abstract
This article seeks to complicate dominant narratives surrounding the star image of stage and screen star Vivien Leigh by interrogating how the material traces of her working life are retained within her dispersed archives. Leigh’s archives document both the development of her stage and screencraft and her alternative off-screen ‘roles’ in business, philanthropy and activism throughout her transatlantic career, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. By exploring materials such as annotated scripts, correspondence and photographs, the article examines how Leigh’s process of archiving produced distinct framings of her multifaceted labour for the future archival spectator. I argue that Leigh’s archival self-fashioning constitutes a complex material network, one which offers alterative readings of gendered star labour and pushes back against more standardised narratives of her career that have overwhelmingly focused on her glamorous star image, her mental health, and her relationship with her equally famous husband and co-star Laurence Olivier.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Special Issue: Structures of Feeling: Contemporary Research in Women’s Film and Broadcasting History |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | archive,star,labour,film history,feminism,gender,historiography,performance,gender studies,history,sdg 3 - good health and well-being,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2017 01:42 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 02:24 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62856 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09612025.2019.1703540 |
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