| Description |
364 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 350-356. |
| Contents |
The melodramatic field: an investigation / Christine Gledhill -- Tales of sound and fury: observations on the family melodrama / Thomas Elsaesser -- Minnelli and melodrama / Jeffrey Nowell-Smith -- Notes on Sirk and melodrama / Laura Mulvey -- Who is without sin? The maternal melodrama in American film, 1930-39 / Christian Viviana -- Censorship and the fallen woman cycle / Lea Jacobs -- Mothering, feminism and representation: the maternal in melodrama and the woman's film 1910-40 / E. Ann Kaplan -- Producing and consuming the woman's film: discursive struggle in Now, Voyager / Maria LaPlace -- Historical pleasures: Gainsborough costume melodrama / Sue Harper -- Hollywood, Freud, and the representation of women: regulation and contradiction, 1945-early 60s / Janet Walker. |
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Vincente Minnelli / Thomas Elsaesser -- Griffith's family discourse: Griffith and Freud / Nick Browne -- Artful racism, artful rape: Griffith's Broken Blossoms / Julia Lesage -- A case of mistaken legitimacy: class and generational difference in three family melodramas / Richard de Cordova -- Madness, authority and ideology: the domestic melodrama of the 1950s / David N. Rodowick -- The woman's film: possession and address / Mary Anne Doane -- Something else besides a mother: Stella Dallas and the maternal melodrama / Linda Williams -- Time and desire in the woman's film / Tania Modleski -- Women's genres: melodrama, soap opera, and theory / Annette Kuhn. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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History. |
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures. |
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Melodrama -- History and criticism.
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Melodrama. |
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Families in motion pictures.
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Families in motion pictures. |
| Indexed Term |
Cinema films: Melodramas, to 1986 - Critical studies |
| Added Author |
Gledhill, Christine.
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British Film Institute.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Home is where the heart is. London : British Film Institute, 1987 (OCoLC)574841880 |
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Online version: Home is where the heart is. London : British Film Institute, 1987 (OCoLC)607869470 |
| ISBN |
085170199X cased £18.00 (July) |
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9780851701998 cased |
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0851702007 paperback £7.95 |
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9780851702001 paperback |
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