British women's cinema
By: edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.
Contributors: Bell, Melanie.; Williams, Melanie.
Series: British popular cinema
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780415466967; 9780415466974
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Motion pictures for women -- Great Britain; Feminist films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Feminism and motion pictures -- Great Britain; Women motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The hour of the cuckoo: reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams; title: Pictures, romance and luxury: women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris; title: '20 million people can't be wrong': Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street; title: The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences: a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy; title: Ingenues, lovers, wives and mothers: the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane; title: A landscape of desire: Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley; title: 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types': the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell; title: Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy; title: The British women's picture: methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper; title: 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk; title: 'It's been emotional': reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby; title: Not to be looked at: older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan; title: Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.