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Femininity in the frame : women and 1950s British popular cinema / Melanie Bell.
- Title
- Femininity in the frame : women and 1950s British popular cinema / Melanie Bell.
- Author
- Bell, Melanie
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Bell challenges the received understandings of the 'happy housewife' of the 1950s through this study of British cinema. She shows that the period was marked by social unease and anxiety about gender roles through analysing marginalized figures such as prostitutes and 'femme fatales', and addressing themes of modernity.
- Series Statement
- Cinema and society series
- Uniform Title
- Cinema and society
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]--210) and index.
- Filmography : p. [211]-214.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction. Women and the 1950s -- Man-made women -- British femme fatale -- Comedy-of-marriage film -- Female group film -- Figure of the prostitute -- Female film critics -- Conclusion: Reconfiguring 1950s femininity.
- ISBN
- 9781848851597 (pbk.)
- 1848851596 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 436265554
- SCSB-13410398
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library