Elizabeth Taylor: From Child to Adult Star

伊丽莎白·泰勒被美国电影学会选为第七位最伟大的女银幕传奇人物，被广泛认为是二十世纪的主要电影明星之一。然而，尽管她似乎是电影明星魅力和诱惑的缩影（因为它远远超出了电影本身的界限），但媒体对她银幕外生活的密切关注，沿着媒体对她的美丽和不断变化的外表的关注，往往会转移人们对她作为演员的成就的注意力。该项目旨在通过提供对伊丽莎白·泰勒电影作品的第一次持续的学术研究来弥补这种忽视。在这样做的过程中，它将研究她的表演风格的独特性和它所借鉴的表演传统，她的表演风格演变的方式-沿着她的星星角色-在她的职业生涯中，她与特定导演和明星合作产生的创造性效果，某些电影作为泰勒的星星载体的重要性，以及这些和其他元素对她整体星星身份形成的贡献。研究泰勒的价值还来自于这样一个事实，即她提供了一个令人着迷的罕见的表演者，他成功地从儿童过渡到成人星星，并在研究支撑这一轨迹的复杂动力学时，该项目旨在阐明从这样一个过程中产生的问题。在倡导以其自身的条件评估泰勒的电影作品的重要性的同时，该研究将同时考虑她在屏幕上和屏幕外的角色之间经常出现的复杂和紧张的互动，以及她更广泛的星星和名人形象对她的作品的发展和接受的影响。在处理这些领域，这项研究的目的是作出重大贡献，我们的理解伊丽莎白泰勒的文化意义，作为儿童和成人星星，同时也表明了价值的表现中心的研究明星作为一个整体。

Voted seventh greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute, Elizabeth Taylor is widely regarded as one of the major film stars of the twentieth century. Yet while she seems to epitomize the glamour and allure of movie stardom (as something that extends well beyond the boundaries of the films themselves), the intense scrutiny that her off-screen life has received in the press has often had the effect, along with the media's preoccupation with her beauty and changing physical appearance, of deflecting attention away from her achievements as an actress. This project seeks to remedy this neglect by offering the first sustained academic study of Elizabeth Taylor's work in film. In doing so, it will examine the distinctive nature of her performing style and the traditions of acting on which it draws, the ways in which her performance style evolved - along with her star persona - during the course of her career, the creative effects arising from her collaborations with particular directors and stars, the importance of certain films as star vehicles for Taylor, and the contribution made by these and other elements to the formation of her overall star identity. The value of studying Taylor also derives from the fact that she offers a fascinatingly rare instance of a performer who managed to make the successful transition from child to adult star and in researching the complex dynamics underpinning this trajectory, this project aims to shed light on the issues arising from such a process. While advocating the importance of assessing Taylor's film work on its own terms, the study will at the same time consider the often complex and tension-ridden interactions that emerged between her on and off-screen personae and the impact of her broader star and celebrity image on the development and reception of her work. In tackling such areas, this research aims to make a major contribution to our understanding of Elizabeth Taylor's cultural significance as both child and adult star while also demonstrating the value of making performance central to the study of stardom as a whole.