Introduction: classical Hollywood cinema and film studies -- The early thirties: modernity, new women, and the aesthetic of attractions -- Normative desires and visual sobriety: apogee of the classical model -- The male subject of noir and the modern gaze -- (Dis)adventures of female desire in the 1940s woman's film -- Excess, spectacle, sensation: family melodrama in the 1950s -- Performative bodies and non-referential images: excesses of the musical.
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