Postmodern Chick Flicks The Return of the Woman's Film
by Garrett, RobertaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Women's films are more popular now than at any time following the classical era. Postmodern Chick Flicks considers the reasons for the renewed popularity of female-orientated genres and examines the new film cycles this has produced. Focusing on melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , the book looks at the revival of these forms and the way in which they blend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices.
Author Biography
ROBERTA GARRETT is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of East London.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements * Introduction: Postmodernist Cinema and Feminist Film Criticism * Postmodernism, New Hollywood and Feminist Theory * The Early 1990s 'Postmodernist' Melodrama: Feminine Virtue in the Consumer Age * Romantic Comedy and Female Spectatorship * Costume Drama, Historiography and Women's History * Neo-Noir and Noir-Lite: Masculinity and Postmodernist Aesthetics in Recent Noir * Conclusion: Fiftiesness Revisited: The Desperate Housewives * Bibliography * Index
Acknowledgements * Introduction: Postmodernist Cinema and Feminist Film Criticism * Postmodernism, New Hollywood and Feminist Theory * The Early 1990s 'Postmodernist' Melodrama: Feminine Virtue in the Consumer Age * Romantic Comedy and Female Spectatorship * Costume Drama, Historiography and Women's History * Neo-Noir and Noir-Lite: Masculinity and Postmodernist Aesthetics in Recent Noir * Conclusion: Fiftiesness Revisited: The Desperate Housewives * Bibliography * Index
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