1st Edition
All that Hollywood Allows Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama
By Jackie Byars
Copyright 1991
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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All that Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top-grossing film melodramas, such as A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life and Picnic .... Read more
Introduction Saying What Can’t Be Said, Reading What Must Be Read: Feminist Criticism, Melodrama, and Film Studies, Chapter One Cultural Studies: An Alternative for Feminist Film Studies, Chapter Two Re-reading Sociological Criticism: Roles, Stereotypes, and Popular Film Melodramas of the Early 1950s, Chapter Three Re-reading Narrative Structure and Gender: The “Social Problem” Film in the 1950s, Chapter Four Re-reading Psychoanalysis for Feminist Film Studies: The “Family Romance” and “the Gaze” in Female-Oriented Film Melodramas of the 1950s, Chapter Five Race, Class, and Gender: Film Melodramas of the Late 1950s, Epilogue
Biography
Jackie Byars received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has taught radio, television, and film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryn Mawr College, and Texas Christion University.
