Heroines without Heroes - Reconstructing Female National Identities in European Cinema, 1945

This anthology explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national identity. Ulrike Sieglohr compares and contrasts the post-war cinemas of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain in order to examine how representations of women in this period emerged from specific national contexts. She further analyzes the appeal of particular stars and the political and social conditions that contributed to their popularity.>

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction Ulrike Sieglohr
BRITAIN
1. Post War Choices and Feminine Possibilities Christine Geraghty
2. A Place of One's Own? Margaret Lockwood and British Film Stardom in the 1940s Sarah Street
FRANCE
3. Evil Women in the Post War French Cinema Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier
4. From Stardom to Eclipse: Micheline Presle and Post War French Cinema Carrie Tarr
5. The Tainted Woman: Simone Signoret, Site of Pathology or Agent of Retribution? Sarah Leahy and Susan Hayward
GERMANY
6. Sweeping up the Past: Gender and History in the Post War German 'Rubble Film' Erica Carter
7. Hildegard Knef: From Rubble Woman to Fallen Woman Ulrike Sieglohr
ITALY
8. What About Women? Italian Films and their Concerns Lesley Caldwell
9. Woman of Rome: Anna Magnani Mary P. Wood
SPAIN
10. Feminizing the Nation: Women, Subordination and Subversion in Post-Civil War Spanish Cinema Jo Labanyi
11. Ana Mariscal: Franco's Disavowed Star Núria Triana-Toribio
References
Further Reading
Index

About the author

Ulrike Sieglohr is Honorary Research Associate in Film, Television and Radio Studies at Staffordshire University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrike Sieglohr, Ulrike (Staffordshire University Sieglohr
• Assisted by: Ulrike Sieglohr (Editor), Ulrike (Staffordshire University Sieglohr (Editor), Sieglohr Ulrike (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474287913
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8791-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Films, cinema, c 1950 to c 1959, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, C 1945 To C 1960