All that Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama (Gender And American Culture Ser.)

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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.
Copyright:
1991

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ISBN-13:
9781134910809
Related ISBNs:
9780203397381, 9780415071178, 9780415071178, 9780415071161, 9780415071161
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
The University of North Carolina Press
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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