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British women's cinema /
edited by Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.
- London : Routledge, 2010.
- x, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- British popular cinema .
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ing�enues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.
9780415466974 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415466962 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415466967 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415466970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women--Great Britain.
Feminist films--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Feminism and motion pictures--Great Britain.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
PN1995.9.W6 / B75 2010
791.436522 / B75
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ing�enues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.
9780415466974 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415466962 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415466967 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415466970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women--Great Britain.
Feminist films--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Feminism and motion pictures--Great Britain.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
PN1995.9.W6 / B75 2010
791.436522 / B75