Recycled Stars

<div>The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In <i>Recycled Stars</i> Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation ownership and control of female film stars and their images in television print and new media. Female stardom she argues is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences' psyches through patterns of fame decline and return. From Gloria Swanson Loretta Young Ida Lupino and Lucille Ball who found new careers in early television to Maureen O'Hara's high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine <i>Confidential</i> to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers video artists and fans this book explores the contours of female stars' resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images across emerging media.</div>