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Femininity In The Frame Women And 1950s British Popular Cinema Cinema And Society Melanie Bell

SKU: BELL-1976358

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Publisher: I. B. Tauris

File Extension: PDF

File size: 5.34 MB

Pages: 241

Author: Melanie Bell

ISBN: 9781848851597, 1848851596

Language: English

Year: 2009

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Femininity In The Frame Women And 1950s British Popular Cinema Cinema And Society Melanie Bell by Melanie Bell 9781848851597, 1848851596 instant download after payment.

It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return post-war to traditional gender roles & that popular cinema represented this era of the mythological "happy housewife" with boys-own tales of derring do. Melanie Bell challenges such received understandings with this sharply observant account of how British cinema engaged with femininity & women's roles during an important period of social & cultural change.
In a lively & accessible manner, she shows that the period was marked by social unease & anxiety about gender roles & femininity through analyzing marginalized figures such as prostitutes, criminals & 'femmes fatales' & addressing themes of modernity, marriage & female friendship.
This revealing book shows how many British films, like The Perfect Woman or Young Wives' Tale, expressed proto-feminist ideas & explored new forms of femininity in a manner that has not until now generally been recognized.