Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 251 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857713299
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1435691326
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1845115627
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1845115619
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6000011504
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9786000011505
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9781845115623
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9780857713292
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9781845115616
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9780755696574
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9781435691322
Content:
At the margins of film noir : genre, range and female representation -- Reviewing the female gothic heroine : agency, identification and feminist film criticism -- Narrative journeys of the female gothic heroine -- Men in the woman's film : the gothic male, representation and female discourse -- Professional investigators and femmes fatales in neo-noir -- Reworking the woman's film : the neo-gothic heroine in contemporary cinema -- The currency of Hollywood heroines.
Content:
The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. Starting at the beginning, with the origin of these cycles and the ways in which they represented women in the American film industry and culture of the 1940s, she traces their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic films from the 1980s to the present. She also places the f
Note:
Includes filmography: pages 225-230 -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845115623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hanson, Helen Hollywood heroines London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755696574
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