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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Meadows, Michael Theodore (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
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.