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I do and I don't : a history of marriage in the movies
- Title
- I do and I don't : a history of marriage in the movies / Jeanine Basinger.
- Author
- Basinger, Jeanine.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 395 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of "the marriage movie": what it is (or isn't) and what it has to tell us about the movies--and ourselves. As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them--perhaps because unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is "happily ever after"--except when things aren't happy, and when "ever after" is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy. or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies--and audiences--work, Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights to Tracy and Hepburn to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one). A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movies stills, posters, and ads"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-366) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-3056
- ISBN
- 9780307269164 (hbk.)
- 0307269167 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012036283
- OCLC
- 793579057
- Author
- Basinger, Jeanine.
- Title
- I do and I don't : a history of marriage in the movies / Jeanine Basinger.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-366) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-3056
