Desire to Desire
Women's Films of the 1940's
Published on 15. March 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 211 pages
978-0-333-45535-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Desire to Desire is a study of the symptoms of ideological stress in the genre of the Hollywood woman's film of the 1940s. The book traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified by its lapses or failures, arguing that the woman's film asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze.
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Series
Edition
1987
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-45535-7 (9780333455357)
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Book
03/1988
Palgrave Macmillan
€55.80
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Content
Acknowledgements - The Desire to Desire - Clinical Eyes: The Medical Discourse - The Moving Image: Pathos and the Maternal - The Love Story - Paranoia and the Specular - Female Spectatorship and Machines of Projection: Caught and Rebecca - The Shadow of Her Gaze - Notes - Bibliography - Index