Postmodern Chick Flicks - The Return of the Woman's Film

Informationen zum Autor ROBERTA GARRETT is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published in the areas of film and cultural theory. Klappentext In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way they blend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices. Zusammenfassung In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way they blend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Film Stills Acknowledgements Introduction Postmodernism, New Hollywood and Women's Films The Early 1990s 'Postmodernist' Melodrama: Female Virtue in the Consumer Age Romantic Comedy and Female Spectatorship Costume Drama, Historiography and Women's History Neo- Noir and Noir-Lite : Masculinity and Postmodernist Aesthetics in New Retro- Noir Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: R Garrett, R. Garrett, Roberta Garrett
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2007
• EAN: 9781403998194
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-9819-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, American Cinema and TV, Motion pictures—United States, American Film and TV, Film history, theory or criticism, film;Hollywood;postmodernism;women