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1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 31 |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 31.
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| Contents |
Introduction: to speak of love -- Film theory, narrative, and the 1940s woman's film -- The fate of one governess: lost narrative, history, and gendered desire -- Melodrama, history, and narrative recovery -- Temporality and the past: haunting narratives and the post-war woman's film -- By my tears I tell a story/the "absent" war -- Telling the story differently: toward an androgynous spectatorship and interpretation |
| Summary |
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. In addition, in paying tribute to and departing from earlier feminist formulations about gendered spectatorship in cinema, McKee argues that such models emphasized a m |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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Women in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Historical films.
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Motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Frauenfilm
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Kvinnor på film, USA.
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Könsroller på film, USA.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135053703 |
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1135053707 |
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9780203506585 |
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0203506588 |
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1306570875 |
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9781306570879 |
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9781135053697 |
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1135053693 |
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