Hollywood heroines : women in film noir and the female gothic film /
The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, fil...
| Основен автор: | Hanson, Helen. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=243355 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Hollywood heroines. |
| Резюме: |
The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. Starting at the beginning, with the origin of these cycles and the ways in which they represented women in the American film industry and culture of the 1940s, she traces their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic films from the 1980s to the present. She also places the f. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes filmography: pages 225-230. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781435691322 1435691326 9780857713292 0857713299 |