Working girls : gender and sexuality in popular cinema / Yvonne Tasker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Working Girls offers a series of case-studies designed to provide a feminist investigation of the thematic concerns and discursive formations of the contemporary Hollywood cinema.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Bad girls and working girls in the 'new Hollywood'; Cross-dressing, aspiration and transformation; Cowgirl tales; Action women: Muscles, mothers and others; Investigating women: Work criminality and sexuality; 'New Hollywood', new film noir and the femme fatale; Female friendship: Melodrama, romance, feminism; Acting funny: Comedy and authority; Music, video, cinema: Singers and movie stars; Performers and producers; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Filmography: p. 219-222.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-227) and index.

ISBN:

1-873226-47-0

1-134-82659-1

1-134-82657-5

1-134-82660-5

1-280-19907-5

0-203-43815-9

0-415-24625-3

9780203438152

OCLC:

560516553