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Identifying Hollywood's audiences : cultural identity and the movies / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Call No: 410(73) IDEAuthor: Maltby, Richard, 1952 ; Stokes, Melvyn Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1999PhysDes: 209 p. ; 24 cmSubject: AUDIENCES ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY, FILMS FOR ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; RKO ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; JUDGE DREDD (US, Danny Cannon, 1995) ; MAYTIME (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1937) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ISBN: 0851707386; 0851707394(pbk.)LON: 20062600 21256904
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Undressing cinema : clothing and identity in the movies / Stella Bruzzi London New York: Routledge, 1997.
Call No: 226.4 BRUAuthor: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1997PhysDes: xxi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: COSTUMES ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; FEMME FATALE ; TRANSVESTISM ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971) ; SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ; TROP BELLE POUR TOI (FR, Bertrand Blier, 1989) ; READY TO WEAR (US, Robert Altman, 1994) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994) ; NEW JACK CITY (US, Mario Van Peebles, 1991) ; BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991) ; WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995) ; DISCLOSURE (US, Barry Levinson, 1994) ; SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1992) ; LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994) ; GLEN OR GLENDA - I LED TWO LIVES (US, Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1953) ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; MRS. DOUBTFIRE (US, Chris Columbus, 1993) ; BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index; Filmography: p. 204-207ISBN: 0415139562 (hbk : alk. paper); 0415139570 (pbk : alk. paper)LON: 97007260; 13082009ID2: 38
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The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / by Kathleen Rowe Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 451-025 ROWAuthor: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Texas film studies seriesSubject: COMEDIENNES ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; MELODRAMA ; SITUATION COMEDY ; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE ; MISS PIGGY ; WEST, MAE ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942) ; BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ; SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular cultureNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and indexISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)LON: 94013656; 10900401
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