Jackie Byars

All that Hollywood Allows

Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama

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Produktbeschreibung

Both a work of feminist film criticism and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top film melodramas such as From Here to Eternity, A Streetcar Named Desire and East of Eden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415071178
• ISBN-10: 0415071178
• Artikelnr.: 69891637

Autorenporträt

Jackie Byars received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has taught radio, television, and film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryn Mawr College, and Texas Christion University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Saying What Can't Be Said
Reading What Must Be Read: Feminist Criticism
Melodrama
and Film Studies
Chapter One Cultural Studies: An Alternative for Feminist Film Studies
Chapter Two Re-reading Sociological Criticism: Roles
Stereotypes
and Popular Film Melodramas of the Early 1950s
Chapter Three Re-reading Narrative Structure and Gender: The "Social Problem" Film in the 1950s
Chapter Four Re-reading Psychoanalysis for Feminist Film Studies: The "Family Romance" and "the Gaze" in Female-Oriented Film Melodramas of the 1950s
Chapter Five Race
Class
and Gender: Film Melodramas of the Late 1950s
Epilogue