British women's cinema / / edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810926103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• ISBN: 1-135-23193-1; 1-282-31531-5; 9786612315312; 0-203-87200-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Collana: British popular cinema
• Altri autori (Persone): BellMelanie; WilliamsMelanie <1974->
• Disciplina: 791.43/6522
• Soggetti: Women in motion pictures; Motion pictures for women - Great Britain; Feminist films - Great Britain - History and criticism; Feminism and motion pictures - Great Britain; Women motion picture producers and directors - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmography.
• Nota di contenuto: The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ingénues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- ; 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.
• Sommario/riassunto: British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'.