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Bad Women

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Description for Bad Women paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; APFA; JFC; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.

Charts the cultural tensions played out on-screen in early American cinema.

It was a new age, and on movie screens the American middle class presented its visions of sexual morality, with definitions of good women and bad. Bad Women takes us back to this time of massive social, cultural, and economic change to show us how American cinema gave women and women’s sexuality images useful to the new consumer culture of the early 1900s and its exploitation of sexual pleasure.

Although aimed at producing a certain kind of woman, these new images did manage to put discussions of women and their sexuality ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816626250
SKU
V9780816626250
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Ref
99-1

About Janet Staiger
Janet Staiger is professor of radio, television, and film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (1992).

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