Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s US Culture (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438455801 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleProvides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture. Popular culture in the 1940s is organized as patriarchal theater. In such a thoroughly patriarchal society, what happens to female sexual desire? Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies unearths this female desire by conducting a panoramic survey of 1940s culture that analyzes popular novels, daytime radio serials, magazines and magazine fiction, marital textbooks, Hollywood and educational films, jungle comics, and popular music. “This exciting book presents a truly capacious understanding of US culture and offers a spectacular array of analyses of how the decade’s cultural discourse struggled to define female desire and
This exciting book presents a truly capacious understanding of US culture and offers a spectacular array of analyses of how the decade s cultural discourse struggled to define female desire and how so much male literature and filmmaking sought to constrain it. Gordon Hutner, author of "What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920 1960""Dillon provides a fascinating analysis of female sexuality in the 1940s as depicted in a truly diverse array of mostly popular culture productions, including popular novels, radio serials, commercial and educational films, and comics Highly recommended. Dillon s study will teach scholars of modern American literature and culture a great deal more about the 1940s than they already know or think they know. It is a brilliant addition to the field. It is a brilliant addition to t
. Steven Dillon is Professor of English at Bates College and the author of Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea and The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film
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