COMPLICATED WOMEN P: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood - Brossura

Lasalle, Mick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312284314 ISBN 13: 9780312284312

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2001

Riassunto

An exploration of women in pre-Code Hollywood explores the careers--between 1929 and 1934--of such stars as Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer, showing how they presented thoroughly modern self-aware and self-sufficient women, a trend destroyed by the repressive Production Code. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and teaches a class at University of California at Berkeley on pre-Code film. He lives in San Francisco.

Product Description:

Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality and led unapologetic careers. Before then, women on screen had come in two varieties - sweet ingenue or vamp. Then two stars came along and blasted away those stereotypes. Greta Garbo turned the femme fatale into a woman whose capacity for love and sacrifice made all other human emotions seem pale. Meanwhile, Norma Shearer succeeded in taking the ingenue to a place she'd never been: the bedroom. These complicated women paved the way for a deluge of indelible stars - Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Mae West to name a few. Then in 1934, the draconian Production Code became law in Hollywood, and these women were banished, not to be seen again for three decades.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312284314
• ISBN 13: 9780312284312
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336