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9781845115616

Hollywood Heroines Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film

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    9781845115616

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-12-15
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Summary

The endangered and dangerous female figures of Rebecca , of Jagged Edge and What Lies Beneath have a deserved and enduring fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. Starting at the beginning, with the origin of these cycles and the ways in which they represented women in the American film industry and culture of the 1940s, she traces their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic films from the 1980s to the present. She also places the female figures of the femme fatale, female investigator and gothic heroine within the shifting contexts of the film industry and debates in feminist film criticism. Hanson examines a wide range of films from both periods, including Suspicion , Gaslight and Pacific Heights , and gives particular attention to their presentation of female stories, actions and perspectives. She reveals a diversity of female figures, representations and actions in film noir and the female gothic film, and argues that these women are part of a negotiation of female identities, desires and roles across a long historical period. Hollywood Heroines offers us new ways of thinking about classic and contemporary Hollywood heroines, and about the interrelationships of gender and genre.

Author Biography

Helen Hanson is Lecturer in Film in the School of English, University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Hollywood Heroines: women, feminism and film
At the Margins of 'film noir': genre, range and female representation
Reviewing the Female Gothic Heroine: agency, identification and feminist film criticism
Narrative Journeys of the Female Gothic Heroine
Men in the Woman's Film: the gothic male, representation and female discourse
Professional Investigators and 'Femmes Fatales' in Neo-Noir
Reworking the Woman's Film: the neo-gothic heroine in contemporary cinema
Conclusions: The Currency of Hollywood Heroines
Appendix: The Female Gothic Cycle of the 1940s
Bibliography
Index
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