Yvonne Tasker

Working Girls

Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Working Girls offers a series of case-studies designed to provide a feminist investigation of the thematic concerns and discursive formations of the contemporary Hollywood cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780415140041
• ISBN-10: 0415140048
• Artikelnr.: 21728972

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Tasker

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS: Introduction: Bad Girls and Working Girls in the `New Hollywood` PART ONE: Chapter One: Crossdressing
Aspiration and Transformation Chapter Two: Cowgirl Tales Chapter Three: Action Women: Muscles
Mothers and Others Chapter Four: Investigating Women: Work
Criminality and Sexuality Chapter Five: New Hollywood
New Film Noir and the Female Fatale Chapter Six: Female Friendship: Melodrama
Romance
Feminism PART TWO: PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION Chapter Seven: Comedy and Authority Chapter Eight: Music
Video
Cinema: Singers and Movie Stars Chapter Nine: Performers and Producers Notes and References Filmography Bibliography

Rezensionen

'Working Girls presents useful analyses of the figure of the working woman in cinema that are thought-provoking and astute assessments of the cultural content of popular film. Much of this book is riveting, both in content and presentation.' - Brenda A. Risch, Scope: online journal of film studies