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The Woman's Film of the 1940s Gender, Narrative, and History
By Alison L. McKee
Copyright 2014
240 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against... Read more
Introduction: To Speak of Love 1. Film Theory, Narrative, and the 1940s Woman’s Film 2. The Fate of One Governess: Lost Narrative, History, and Gendered Desire 3. Melodrama, History, and Narrative Recovery 4. Temporality and the Past: Haunting Narratives and the Post-War Woman’s Film 5. By My Tears I Tell a Story/The "Absent" War 6. Telling the Story Differently: Toward an Androgynous Spectatorship and Interpretation
Biography
Alison L. McKee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre at San Jose State University, US
"The Woman’s Film of the 1940s provides a welcome focus on images of women in crisis in a key period in social history " - Sue Harper, University of Portsmouth, UK
