Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Through their writing, Richard Dyer and William Wees elaborate on the construction of the building blocks of the formation that make up Monroe’s star image, from her looks to her personality. Dyer’s writing addresses how Monroe’s sexuality and naturalness developed Monroeisms as it plays a role within all of her roles. Wees focuses on the mechanical apparatus of cinema and the eternal youth it has granted Monroe’s image. The writing of Anne Peterson works to support Dyer and Wees’s points as it allows readers to understand how Monroe’s on-screen sexual presence also transferred into her every day, historic star image. This essay will analyze that although in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monroe’s star image is portrayed as a sexual object to men, she is proven to have brains of her own in many scenes.
America’s Classic Blonde
When dissecting Monroe’s Playboy image, Dyer focuses on the racial and social-cultural contexts that allow Monroe to flourish as an actress and Hollywood’s sex image. “A classic dumb blonde one-liner, it implies a refusal or inability to answer the question at the…
