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All that Hollywood allows : re-reading gender in 1950s melodrama / Jackie Byars

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1991Description: x,326p : ill, portsISBN:
  • 9780415071178
  • 9780415071178
Subject(s): Summary: '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'.
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Bibliography: p289-301 - Includes index.

'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'.

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