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Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema
Contributor(s): Tasker, Yvonne (Author)
ISBN: 0415140056     ISBN-13: 9780415140058
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $47.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1998
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Annotation: An authoritative investigation of Hollywood's portrayal of women. WORKING GIRLS examines Hollywood's ambivalent articulation of women as both active and defined by sexual performance, questioning whether new Hollywood film makers even have grasped, much less responded to, feminism and contemporary sexual identities. Photos.
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 791.436
LCCN: 97-38918
Lexile Measure: 1550
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.19" W x 9.21" (1.14 lbs) 234 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities.
Whether analysing the rise of films centred around female friendships, or the entrance of pop stars such as Whitney Houston and Madonna into film, Working Girls is an authoritative investigation of the presence of women both as film makers and actors in contemporary mainstream cinema.