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A Woman's View How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Name: A Woman's View
Author: Jeanine Basinger

Auteur: Jeanine Basinger

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jeanine Basinger

Engels
Paperback
9780819562913
23 juni 1995
542 pagina's

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Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leave Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda...these are only a few of the hundreds of women's films that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties - films that not only delivered on their inherent promise to entertain but also opened a door to the Other, the Something Else, that audiences came to the theater yearning to see and feel, if only for a couple of hours. Films widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique, they nonetheless shared one dual purpose: to provide the audience (of women, primarily) with temporary liberation into a screen dream - of romance, sexuality, luxury, suffering, or even wickedness - and then send it home reminded of, reassured by, and resigned to the fact that no matter what else she might do, a woman's most important job was...to be a woman. Now, with boundless knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, Jeanine Basinger illuminates the various surprising and subversive ways in which women's films delivered their message. Basinger examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convoluted heart of the woman's genre - among them, the dilemma of the strong and glamorous woman who cedes her power when she feels it threatening her personal happiness, and the self-abnegating woman whose selflessness is not always as noble as it appears. Basinger looks at the stars who played these women (Kay Francis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Rosalind Russell, Susan Hayward, Myrna Loy, and a host of others) and helps us understand the qualities - the right off-screen personae, the right on-screen attitudes, the right faces, the right figures forcarrying the right clothes - that made them personify the woman's film and equipped them to make believable drama or comedy out of the crackpot plots, the conflicting ideas, and the exaggerations of real behavior that characterize these movies. In each of the films the author discus

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 juni 1995
Aantal pagina's: 542
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Jeanine Basinger
Hoofduitgeverij: Wesleyan Univ Pr

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Editie: Large type / large print edition
Extra groot lettertype: Ja
Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 44 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 44 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 771 g

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EAN: 9780819562913

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Kunst & Fotografie

Entertainment

Cultuur

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Films & Bioscoop

Popcultuur

Genderstudies

Sociale theorie

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Land: Verenigde Staten
Periode: ca. 1920-1939, ca. 1950-1999

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