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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778476403321

Titolo

British women's cinema [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-135-23193-1

1-282-31531-5

9786612315312

0-203-87200-2

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'.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954780303321

Autore

Rodríguez O Jaime E. <1940->

Titolo

"We are now the true Spaniards" : sovereignty, revolution, independence, and the emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808-1824 / / Jaime E. Rodriguez O

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

9780804784634

0804784639

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (521 p.)

Disciplina

972/.03

Soggetti

Mexico History

Mexico History Wars of Independence, 1810-1821

Mexico Politics and government 1810-1821

Mexico Politics and government 1821-1861

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.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Preface; A Note about America and Americans; Terms Used in the Text; Introduction; 1. A Shared Political Culture; 2. The Collapse of the Spanish Monarchy; 3. The Events of 1809; 4. Two Revolutions; 5. The Cádiz Revolution; 6. A Fragmented Insurgency; 7. Separation; 8. The Mexican Empire; 9. The Formation of the Federal Republic; Conclusion; Notes; Sources; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821-one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; n