Postmodern Chick Flicks
Subtitle: The Return of the Woman's Film
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781403998194
Subjects: Films, cinema; Gender studies; Popular culture; Film Criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Film & Video - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Motion pictures for women
Description: Postmodern Chick Flicks provides the first extensive analysis of the return to the woman's film in the 1990s. Focusing on forms such as the melodrama, romantic comedy and costume and period drama, this timely study examines the way that new female-orientated filmic forms have been influenced by postmodern irony and generic self-consciousness. The book highlights the difference between classical and post-modernist women's forms, considering major shifts in themes and form, for example, the latter's focus on single professional women rather than family and the domestic realm. Postmodern Chick Flicks also draws links between the formal and thematic properties of new female genres and the expansion of popular women's literature - 'chick-lit' - and popular female-orientated television shows, such as Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives.