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542 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780819562913
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 23 June 1995
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In this highly readable and entertaining book, Jeanine Basinger shows how the "woman's film" of the 30s, 40s, and 50s sent a potent mixed message to millions of female moviegoers. At the same time that such films exhorted women to stick to their "...
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542 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780819562913
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 23 June 1995
Description
In this highly readable and entertaining book, Jeanine Basinger shows how the "woman's film" of the 30s, 40s, and 50s sent a potent mixed message to millions of female moviegoers. At the same time that such films exhorted women to stick to their "...