Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema Contributor(s): Tasker, Yvonne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415140056 ISBN-13: 9780415140058 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 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. |
Additional Information |
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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Publisher Description: 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. |