Marilyn Monroe’s On-screen Spectrum of Femininity: Types and Nature of Her Movie Characters
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12797/AdAmericam.23.2022.23.06Keywords:
Marilyn Monroe, postwar America, 1950s, Hollywood, stardom, movie characterAbstract
The article makes an attempt to create a typology of movie characters played by Marilyn Monroe. Her film roles are classic examples of typecasting. Since Monroe was a type of a sexy blonde, that was what she played in her movies. Whether it was a comedy or drama, her sexiness defined the entire character. However, the attributes of the sex bomb Marilyn combined with other features: of an innocent child, a lost and helpless girl, a sensitive and tender woman. These three types of characters: a child-woman, a female buddy, and a woman-partner, make up the full picture of Monroe’s femininity with which viewers interact during the cinematic mystery and which create an artistic, social and cultural phenomenon called ‘Marilyn Monroe.’
Downloads
References
Bazin, Andre. “Henry Hathaway’s Niagara”. Andre Bazin the Critic as Thinker American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s, edited by R.J. Cardulo. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2017, pp. 63-65.
Google Scholar
Capote, Truman. Music for Chameleons. New York: Random House, 1980.
Google Scholar
Churchwell, Sarah. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New York: Picador, 2005.
Google Scholar
Dyer, Richard. Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society. New York: Routledge, 1986.
Google Scholar
Guiles, Fred Lawrence. Norma Jean: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe. London: Grafton Books, 1986.
Google Scholar
Gussow, Mel. Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.
Google Scholar
Kracauer, Siegfried. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Google Scholar
Mailer, Norman. Marilyn: A Biography. London: Coronet Books, 1974.
Google Scholar
Mills, Bart. Marilyn on Location. London: Sidwick & Jackson, 1989.
Google Scholar
Morin, Edgar. The Stars. Translated by Richard Howard, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Google Scholar
Pitera, Zbigniew. Dzieje gwiazdy. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1976.
Google Scholar
Rise, Randall, and Neal Hitchens. The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z. London: Corgi Books, 1987.
Google Scholar
Rosen, Marjorie. Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.
Google Scholar
Steinem, Gloria. Marilyn: Norma Jeane. London: Penguin Books, 1987.
Google Scholar
Włodek, Patrycja. Kres niewinności. Obraz upamiętnienia ery Eisenhowera w amerykańskich filmach i serialach – pomiędzy reprezentacją, nostalgią a krytycznym retro. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, 2018, https://doi.org/10.24917/97883808411871. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24917/97883808411871
Google Scholar
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
