Hollywood heroines [electronic resource] : women in film noir and the female gothic film / by Helen Hanson.
By: Hanson, Helen.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Women in motion pictures | Motion pictures for women -- United States | Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism | Heroines in motion picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes filmography: p. [225]-230.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-244) and index.
At the margins of film noir : genre, range and female representation -- Reviewing the female gothic heroine : agency, identification and feminist film criticism -- Narrative journeys of the female gothic heroine -- Men in the woman's film : the gothic male, representation and female discourse -- Professional investigators and femmes fatales in neo-noir -- Reworking the woman's film : the neo-gothic heroine in contemporary cinema -- The currency of Hollywood heroines.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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