| Description |
x, 225 p. : ill. |
| Series |
British popular cinema |
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British popular cinema.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes filmography. |
| 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 -- Ingenues, 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| 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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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bell, Melanie.
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Williams, Melanie.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415466967 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415466962 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415466974 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415466970 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780203872000 (electronic bk.) |
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0203872002 (electronic bk.) |
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