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Heroines without Heroes : Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51.

"This anthology explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national identity. Ulrike Sieglohr compares and contrasts the post-war cinemas of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain in order to examine how represe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siehlohr, Ulrike
Otros Autores: Sieglohr, Ulrike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Colección:Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Thinking through a period of reconstruction; Structure and methodology; Key issues; Conclusion; Notes; Britain; Chapter One Post-war Choices and Feminine Possibilities; Notes; Filmography; Chapter Two A Place of One's Own} Margaret Lockwood and British Film Stardom in the 1940s; Money, profession/employment and class; Motherhood; Alter egos and split personalities; Conclusion; Filmography; France; Chapter Three Evil Women in the Post-war French Cinema; Introduction; The Resistance cycle.
  • Noir realism and misogynyMinority representations; Conclusion; Filmography; Chapter Four From Stardom to Eclipse: Micheline Presle and Post-war French Cinema; Note; Filmography; Chapter Five The Tainted Woman: Simone Signoret, Site of Pathology or Agent of Retribution?; Dédée d'Anvers: agencing desire and retribution; Maneges: the malevolence of desire; Conclusion; Note; Filmography; Germany; Chapter Six Sweeping up the Past: Gender and History in the Post-war German 'Rubble Film'; The rubble film and gender; Masculinity and memory; Women, memory and history; Mourning and gender.
  • From rubble film to New German CinemaAcknowledgements; Notes; Filmography 1946-9; Chapter Seven Hildegard Knef: From Rubble Woman to Fallen Woman; Introduction; Biography of an emerging star; Knef's films and their historical reception; Appropriations; Historicizing Knef; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Filmography; Italy; Chapter Eight What about Women? Italian Films and Their Concerns; Introduction; The early 1940s; Neo-realism; Conclusion; Filmography; Chapter Nine Woman of Rome: Anna Magnani; Notes; Filmography; Spain.
  • Chapter Ten Feminizing the Nation: Women, Subordination and Subversion in Post-Civil War Spanish CinemaIntroduction; Female stars; Folkloric musicals; War and missionary films; Historical epics; Costume drama; Film noir; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Chapter Eleven Ana Mariscal: Franco's Disavowed Star; Mariscal's times; Mariscal's voice; Acknowledgements; Note; Filmography; References; Further Reading; Index.