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Spinsters, widows and chars : the ageing woman in British film
- Title
- Spinsters, widows and chars : the ageing woman in British film / Claire Mortimer.
- Author
- Mortimer, Claire, 1964-
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- vii, 232 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- Actresses like Maggie Smith, Cicely Courtneidge and Sybil Thorndike have established the enduring appeal of the ageing actress in British film. Historicising and contextualising this archetypal figure, this book establishes a taxonomy of female ageing in British cinema, from the 1930s to the present day.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: ageing women and British cinema -- Immobile women?: ageing women and wartime cinema -- "It ain't natural, her not having a husband": spinsters and the post-war settlement -- Dangerous and unwholesome: the spinster teacher -- Battleaxes and chars: working class matriarchs -- "Not having it so good": widowhood, anomalous ageing and the welfare state -- "Infertile, domestically unnecessary, and jealous": hags, witches, and the magic spinster -- "Senior-bait" cinema: female ageing in contemporary British film.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-21
- ISBN
- 1474452825
- 9781474452823
- OCLC
- 1256628026
- Author
- Mortimer, Claire, 1964- author.
- Title
- Spinsters, widows and chars : the ageing woman in British film / Claire Mortimer.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781474452854
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-21