All That Hollywood Allows: Re-Reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama - Couverture souple

Byars, Jackie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807843121 ISBN 13 : 9780807843123

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1991

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Book by Byars Jackie

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0807843121
• ISBN 13: 9780807843123
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336