Byars - All that Hollywood Allows

All that Hollywood Allows

Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-0-415-07117-8

Verlag: Routledge

Erscheinungstermin: 05.09.1991

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All that Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top-grossing film melodramas, such as A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life and Picnic.
Stereotypically viewed as a complacent and idyllic time, the 1950s were actually a time of dislocation and great social change. Jackie Byars argues that mass media texts of the period, especially films, provide evidence of society's consuming preoccupation with the domestic sphere - the nuclear family and its values - and she shows how Hollywood melodramas interpreted and extended societal debates concerning family structure, sexual divisions of labour, and gender roles. Her readings of these films assess a variety of critical methodologies and approaches to textual analysis, some central to feminist film studies and some previously bypassed by scholars in the field.

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Artikelnummer: 9780415071178
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-07117-8
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 05.09.1991
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage 1991
Produktform: Kartoniert
Gewicht: 515 g
Seiten: 336
Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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