In The Company Of Women : Contemporary Female Friendship Films
From Desperately Seeking Susan, Steel Magnolias, and Thelma & Louise to Desert Hearts, Girl Friends, and Passion Fish, mainstream cinema has seen a wave of films focusing on friendships between women. In the Company of Women is the first critical work to investigate the recent resurgence of this...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
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Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theoretical and Generic Contexts of Contemporary Female Friendship Films; 1 Women's Film Precedents; 2 The Sentimental Female Friendship Film; 3 The Female Friendship Film and Women's Development; 4 The Political Female Friendship Film; 5 The Erotic Female Friendship Film: Lesbianism in the Mainstream; 6 The Female Friendship Film and Women of Color; 7 Backlash: The Anti-Female Friendship Film; Conclusion: The Future of the Female Friendship Film; Notes; Index.


