A woman's view : how Hollywood spoke to women, 1930-1960 /

Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leave Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda ... these are only a few of the hundreds of "women's films" that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties - films that not only delivered on their inherent promise to en...

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Main Author: Basinger, Jeanine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The genre
  • The woman herself
  • Duality: "My God! There's Two of Her!"
  • Fashion and glamour
  • The stars who play her
  • Ways of seeing her
  • The woman's world
  • Men
  • Marriage
  • Motherhood
  • The woman in the man's world
  • Proof: Kitty and Angie and Janet
  • Appendix: Women at the box office.