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Informationen zum Autor Melanie Bell is Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. She has published widely in the areas of British film culture! gender and genre! and British women's writing on film. She has contributed to the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' and co-edited 'British Women's Cinema' (2009). Klappentext It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return post-war to traditional gender roles and 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 and women's roles during an important period of social and cultural change. In a lively and accessible manner! she shows that the period was marked by social unease and anxiety about gender roles and femininity through analyzing marginalized figures such as prostitutes! criminals and 'femmes fatales' and addressing themes of modernity! marriage and female friendship. This revealing book shows how many British films! like "The Perfect Woman" or "Young Wives' Tale!" expressed proto-feminist ideas and explored new forms of femininity in a manner that has not until now generally been recognized. It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of the 'happy housewife'. This title presents an account of how British cinema engaged with femininity and women's roles during this important period. Zusammenfassung It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of the 'happy housewife'. This title presents an account of how British cinema engaged with femininity and women's roles during this important period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema Chapter 1: Man-Made Women Chapter 2: The British femme fatale Chapter 3: The Housewife and the Comedies of Marriage cycle Chapter 4: The Female Group film Chapter 5: Female Sexuality and the Prostitute as Heroine-Figure Chapter 6: Female Film Critics: Addressing the British Film Audience Conclusion Notes! Bibliography! Index ...
