| Description |
1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
British popular cinema |
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British popular cinema.
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| Contents |
The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ingénues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams |
| Summary |
British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures for women -- Great Britain
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Feminist films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Feminism and motion pictures -- Great Britain
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Feminism and motion pictures
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Feminist films
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Motion pictures for women
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Women in motion pictures
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bell, Melanie
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Williams, Melanie
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| ISBN |
9780203872000 |
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0203872002 |
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9780415466967 |
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0415466962 |
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9780415466974 |
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0415466970 |
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9781135002961 |
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1135002967 |
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9781135231934 |
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1135231931 |
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9781135231880 |
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1135231885 |
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9781135231927 |
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1135231923 |
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1282315315 |
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9781282315310 |
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9786612315312 |
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6612315318 |
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