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Journal Article
To Have and to Hold: The Possessive Spectator, the Spinster Narrative, and Katharine Hepburn in David Lean’s Summertime (1955)
2021
Overview
Since the cinematic experience is so ephemeral, it has always been difficult to hold on to its precious moments, images and, most particularly, its idols . . . . the desire to possess and hold the elusive image led to repeated viewing, a return to the cinema to watch the same film over and over again . . [...]Starring Katharine Hepburn\" examines Katharine Hepburn's star persona in the mid-1950s, which complicates what at first seems to be a clichéd portrayal of an American spinster finding love abroad in the mid-1950s. On other fronts, the postwar market for American film exports was, in theory, high in some European countries now that wartime embargoes had been lifted, but those countries' currencies were often either nonexistent or so unstable that they had no real method to pay Hollywood film companies in ways that would show as profit in accounting ledgers, as Shandley points out (8). [...]because the United States controlled such a large percentage of the world's economy immediately after the war, some countries wanted to hang on to the few dollars they possessed in order to pay for essential commodities-hence \"the freezing of earnings generated by American companies so that such earnings had to be reinvested in the national economies rather than removed in the form of dollars\" (Shandley 8-9). [...]Shandley's title Runaway Romances has a double meaning, in the sense that it refers both to those Hollywood productions that migrated to Europe and to the runaway romance's narrative convention, which usually involves an American (male or female) traveler away from home becoming romantically involved with a European, almost always on a temporary basis.
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University of Illinois Press,University Film and Video Association
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