Book Review| October 01 1996 Review: Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television by Nina C. Leibman Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and TelevisionNina C. Leibman Julian Stringer Julian Stringer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (1996) 50 (1): 56–57. https://doi.org/10.2307/1213342 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Julian Stringer; Review: Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television by Nina C. Leibman. Film Quarterly 1 October 1996; 50 (1): 56–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/1213342 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1996 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| April 01 1995 Review: Peking Opera Blues by Tsui Hark Peking Opera BluesTsui Hark Julian Stringer Julian Stringer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (1995) 48 (3): 34–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/1213293 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Julian Stringer; Review: Peking Opera Blues by Tsui Hark. Film Quarterly 1 April 1995; 48 (3): 34–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/1213293 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1995 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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The biographies of most stars work on the misconception that a performer's true, private self can be discretely separated from the meaning of their public image. Whether it is a serious study of a major artist or a trashy exposé of a behind-the-scenes scandal, the organisational logic is usually the same: the writer assumes that since a media image is a false representation of an actual person, digging deep into the background and lifestyle of any star can only help to reveal something of what that person is ‘really’ like.