Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood by Kristen Hatch

Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood

Kristen Hatch

208 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as “America’s sweetheart,” and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple’s films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her ea...

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