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Author(s) Basinger, Jeanine Title A Woman's View : How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 Softcover, HARDCOVER: Hard Cover Book Condition As New Book Jacket Condition As New Book Jacket OVERSIZE POSTAGE REQUIRED! Out of Print Approximate Size 6 x 9'' Publisher New York, NY, U.S.A. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated 1993 ISBN Number 0394563514 / 9780394563510 Seller ID 02870795 When film experts talk about the "woman's picture," a Hollywood genre that flourished in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, they often squabble over whether these films were liberating or constraining. Jeanine Basinger argues that they were both at the same time. She maintains that they freed their female protagonists to break social bonds while also punishing any women who seemed too free and feisty.
This lively and exceedingly thorough book covers every major aspect of this fascinating film genre, including the roles female stars were expected to play, the fabulous clothes they wore, the social behaviors they were condemned to adopt, the ways they responded to and were treated by men, and the ideals of femininity Hollywood producers tried to impress upon their audiences. 529 pages with black & white photographs you may never have seen of these famous women. - When issued in 1993, the publisher's price was $30.00 (probably would be $50.00 at today's costs). Condition is as new - book jacket has a few dings on the back and top of spine - otherwise clean and intact. More about this book: the author examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convulted heart of the women's genre. She looks at the stars who played these women - Kay Fancis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, and a host of others. In stock now - Summer 2003.
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