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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Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
1993.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.