Alison L McKee

The Woman's Film of the 1940s

Gender, Narrative, and History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman's films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman's film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415833066
• ISBN-10: 041583306X
• Artikelnr.: 40139372

Autorenporträt

Alison L. McKee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre at San Jose State University, US

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: To Speak of Love 1. Film Theory
Narrative
and the 1940s Woman's Film 2. The Fate of One Governess: Lost Narrative
History
and Gendered Desire 3. Melodrama
History
and Narrative Recovery 4. Temporality and the Past: Haunting Narratives and the Post-War Woman's Film 5. By My Tears I Tell a Story/The "Absent" War 6. Telling the Story Differently: Toward an Androgynous Spectatorship and Interpretation