
A Woman's View
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Basinger examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convoluted heart of the woman's genre-among them, the dilemma of the strong and glamorous woman who cedes her power when she feels it threatening her personal happiness, and the self-abnegating woman whose selflessness is not always as "noble" as it appears. Basinger looks at the stars who played these women and helps us understand the qualities-the right off-screen personae, the right on-screen attitudes, the right faces-that made them personify the woman's film and equipped them to make believable drama or comedy out of the crackpot plots, the conflicting ideas, and the exaggerations of real behavior that characterize these movies.
In each of the films the author discusses-whether melodrama, screwball comedy, musical, film noir, western, or biopic-a woman occupies the center of her particular universe. Her story-in its endless variations of rags to riches, boy meets girl, battle of the sexes, mother love, doomed romance-inevitably sends a highly potent mixed message: Yes, you women belong in your "proper place" (that is, content with the Big Three of the women's film world-men, marriage, and motherhood), but meanwhile, and paradoxically, see what fun, glamour, and power you can enjoy along the way. A Woman's View deepens our understanding of the times and circumstances and attitudes out of which these movies were created.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- The Genre
- The Woman Herself
- Duality: "My God! There's Two of Her!"
- Fashion and Glamour
- The Stars Who Play Her
- Ways of Seeing Her
- The Woman's World
- Men
- Marriage
- Motherhood
- The Woman in the Man's World
- Proof: Kitty and Angie and Janet
- Appendix: Women at the Box Office
- Bibliography
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Photographic Credits
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