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All that Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama

Autor Jackie Byars
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 1991
All that Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top-grossing film melodramas, such as A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life and Picnic.
Stereotypically viewed as a complacent and idyllic time, the 1950s were actually a time of dislocation and great social change. Jackie Byars argues that mass media texts of the period, especially films, provide evidence of society's consuming preoccupation with the domestic sphere - the nuclear family and its values - and she shows how Hollywood melodramas interpreted and extended societal debates concerning family structure, sexual divisions of labour, and gender roles. Her readings of these films assess a variety of critical methodologies and approaches to textual analysis, some central to feminist film studies and some previously bypassed by scholars in the field.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415071178
ISBN-10: 0415071178
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction Saying What Can’t Be Said, Reading What Must Be Read: Feminist Criticism, Melodrama, and Film Studies, Chapter One Cultural Studies: An Alternative for Feminist Film Studies, Chapter Two Re-reading Sociological Criticism: Roles, Stereotypes, and Popular Film Melodramas of the Early 1950s, Chapter Three Re-reading Narrative Structure and Gender: The “Social Problem” Film in the 1950s, Chapter Four Re-reading Psychoanalysis for Feminist Film Studies: The “Family Romance” and “the Gaze” in Female-Oriented Film Melodramas of the 1950s, Chapter Five Race, Class, and Gender: Film Melodramas of the Late 1950s, Epilogue

Notă biografică

Jackie Byars received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has taught radio, television, and film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryn Mawr College, and Texas Christion University.

Descriere

Both a work of feminist film criticism and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top film melodramas such as From Here to Eternity, A Streetcar Named Desire and East of Eden.

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'All That Hollywood Allows' explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position.