Author of Doris Day Confidential, Tamar Jeffers McDonald celebrates Doris Day’s 90th birthday for us with her favourite Doris film moment. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Hollywood
Doris Day’s Cinematic Selfies
Charting Doris Day’s off and on-screen ‘persona’, Tamar Jeffers McDonald unearths a recurring motif of self-referentialism. Continue reading
‘Degenerate Women’
Be servile, or die. During the 1930s Catholic agencies set to reshape Hollywood’s films, creating a cultural product that presented exemplars of pro-Catholic sexual virtues. Alexander McGregor, author of The Catholic Church in Hollywood, explains how and why. Continue reading
Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Imitation
It may seem cliché, but Charlie Chaplin’s mother provided him an almost infinite source of raw material to fashion into comic and sentimental themes. Continue reading
The Evolution of the Hollywood Family Film
In the age of the ‘kidult’, is the term ‘family film’ still an appropriate description for all-age entertainment? Continue reading
