Elizabeth Taylor: From Child to Adult Star

伊丽莎白·泰勒被美国电影学会评选为第七大最伟大的女性银幕传奇人物，被广泛认为是20世纪主要的电影明星之一。然而，虽然她似乎是电影明星魅力和魅力的缩影（这种魅力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，加上媒体对她的美貌和不断变化的外表的关注，往往会转移人们对她作为演员所取得成就的关注。这个项目试图通过对伊丽莎白·泰勒的电影作品进行第一次持续的学术研究来弥补这种忽视。这样做,它会检查她的表演风格的独特的性质和作用于它的传统绘画,她的表演风格演变的方式——连同她的明星人物——在她的职业生涯中,她带来创新效应与特定的合作导演和明星,电影明星某些汽车的重要性对泰勒,和这些和其他元素的贡献她的整体明星身份的形成。研究泰勒的价值还在于，她提供了一个令人着迷的罕见的例子，一个演员成功地从儿童明星转变为成人明星。在研究支撑这一轨迹的复杂动态过程中，该项目旨在阐明在这一过程中产生的问题。在强调评估泰勒电影作品的重要性的同时，这项研究也将考虑她在银幕内外经常出现的复杂而紧张的互动，以及她更广泛的明星和名人形象对她作品的发展和接受的影响。在解决这些问题时，本研究旨在为我们理解伊丽莎白·泰勒作为儿童和成人明星的文化意义做出重大贡献，同时也展示了将表演作为研究明星整体的核心价值。

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.