Classic Hollywood : Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 /
"Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she breaks down the so-called classic...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: classical Hollywood cinema and film studies
- The early thirties: modernity, new women, and the aesthetic of attractions
- Normative desires and visual sobriety: apogee of the classical model
- The male subject of noir and the modern gaze
- (Dis)adventures of female desire in the 1940s woman's film
- Excess, spectacle, sensation: family melodrama in the 1950s
- Performative bodies and non-referential images: excesses of the musical.