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082 _a791.43082
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084 _a24.34
_2bcl
100 _aHanson, Helen,
_eauthor.
_917959
245 _aHollywood heroines :
_bwomen in film noir and the female gothic film /
_cby Helen Hanson.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aLondon [England] :
_bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
_c2007.
264 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) :
_billustrations.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.
504 _aIncludes filmography: pages 225-230.
520 _aThe endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. Starting at the beginning, with the origin of these cycles and the ways in which they represented women in the American film industry and culture of the 1940s, she traces their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic films from the 1980s to the present. She also places the f.
650 _aFilm noir
_zUnited States
_xHistory and criticism.
_917960
650 _aHeroines in motion pictures.
_917961
650 _aMotion pictures for women
_zUnited States.
_917962
650 _aWomen in motion pictures.
_917963
650 _aFilm theory & criticism
_2bicssc
_917964
856 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9780755696574?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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999 _c13187
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