Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a
scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented
the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and
60s; an ideal that was to be questioned and ultimately undermined
during the years to follow by lurid accounts of his private life
and his death from AIDS related illness. This illuminating analysis
of Hudson's career reassesses the perceived disparity between his
public persona and his 'true' nature. Exploring his unique
qualities as a performer and exposing the role of his agent,
producers and directors in the construction of his image, John
Mercer unpicks Hudson's stardom to reveal a more complex star
identity than has hitherto been understood. Foregrounding the ways
in which Hudson's career provides insights into the nature of
American popular culture and attitudes towards gender and
sexuality, Mercer ultimately depicts Hudson as a star who embodied
a period of transition between the old Hollywood and the new.
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