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"When I'm Bad, I'm Better": Mae West, Sex and American Entertainment

by Marybeth Hamilton (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $43.44
Synopsis

In a world of trendsetting film icons, few are more familiar than Mae West. Yet for all her public controversy, West is also a mystery. Marybeth Hamilton combines elements of biography, cultural analysis, and social history to unmask West and reveal her commercial savvy, willpower, and truly shocking theatrical transgressions.

$43.44

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 317
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 0520210948
ISBN 13: 9780520210943

Media Reviews
What must strike the reader about Hamilton's careful scholarship is how 'common' West's origins actually were. . . . The strength of Hamilton's book is its in-depth discussion of the ways West drew on her working-class roots in order to offer herself up to middle-class audiences as a 'slumming' experience. --Kelly Mayhew, American Book Review
Author Bio
Marybeth Hamilton holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and teaches American History at Birkbeck College, University of London.