British women's cinema / / edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams
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| Titolo: |
British women's cinema / / edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6522 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
BellMelanie
WilliamsMelanie <1974->
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| 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'. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | British women's cinema |
| ISBN: | 1-135-23193-1 |
| 1-282-31531-5 | |
| 9786612315312 | |
| 0-203-87200-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810926103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
British popular cinema.