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A woman's view
how Hollywood spoke to women, 1930-1960
By Basinger, Jeanine
- ISBN
- 978-0-39456-351-0
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf : 1993.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 1993
Basinger (film studies, Wesleyan Univ.) has written a knowledgeable and entertaining study of the woman's film genre. With examples from hundreds of films, she demonstrates that these movies offered women the contradictory message that other roles were accessible to them, while simultaneously reaffirming the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
