All that Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1991 - Počet stran: 326
All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of po
 

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Cultural Studies An Alternative for Feminist Film Studies
21
Feminism Marxism and Cultural Studies
34
Theorizing Ideology
41
Ethnographic Audience Research and Epochal Analysis
54
Rereading Sociological Criticism Roles Stereotypes and Popular Film Melodramas of the Early 1950s
63
Struggling over the Meaning of Woman
73
Working Women in Film Melodramas of the Early 1950s
85
Rereading Narrative Structure and Gender
103
Stories of Mothers and Daughters
142
Seeing and Being Seen
154
Race Class and Gender Film Melodramas of the Late 1950s
204
Coming to Manhood in MaleOriented Melodramas
211
Dynastic Melodramas
221
Imitating Life
232
Reflections
253
Notes
259

Evolution of a SubGenre
108
The Social Problem Films of the 1950s
111
Rereading Psychoanalysis for Feminist Film Studies The Family Romance and the Gaze in FemaleOriented
128
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
132
Bibliography
283
Filmography
297
Index
309
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Strana 1 - ... contrapuntal theme, woven into the cycle of life and recurring in varying forms in people's judgments, fantasies, and thoughts. The occasion for this observation was the selection of a sample of women for a study of the relation between judgment and action in a situation of moral conflict and choice. Against the background of the psychological descriptions of identity and moral development which I had read and taught for a number of years, the women's voices sounded distinct. It was then that...

O autorovi (1991)

Jackie Byars received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has taught in film/media studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryn Mawr College, Texas Christian University, St. Mary's College of California, and Wayne State University (since 1992).

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