Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film

ISBN-13: 9781349546787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 232 str.

R. Garrett

Opis

In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularityof the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrettexamines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs, revealing the way theyblend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices."

Spis treści

List of Film Stills Acknowledgements Introduction Postmodernism, New Hollywood and Women's Films The Early 1990s 'Postmodernist' Melodrama: Female Virtue in the Consumer Age Romantic Comedy and Female Spectatorship Costume Drama, Historiography and Women's History Neo- Noir and Noir-Lite : Masculinity and Postmodernist Aesthetics in New Retro- Noir Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

ROBERTA GARRETT is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published in the areas of film and cultural theory.