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Classic Hollywood : lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960
Uniform Title
Grande Hollywood. English
Title
Classic Hollywood : lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960 / Veronica Pravadelli ; translated by Michael Theodore Meadows.
ISBN
9780252038778
0252038770
9780252080340
0252080343
9780252096730
Publication
Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Physical Description
viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Translated from the Italian.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 21, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: classical Hollywood cinema and film studies
The early thirties: modernity, new women, and the aesthetic of attractions
Normative desires and visual sobriety: apogee of the classical model
The male subject of noir and the modern gaze
(Dis)adventures of female desire in the 1940s woman's film
Excess, spectacle, sensation: family melodrama in the 1950s
Performative bodies and non-referential images: excesses of the musical.
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