Working girls : gender and sexuality in popular cinema / Yvonne Tasker.

By:

Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0415246253
9780415246255
9780203438152
0203438159
1280199075
9781280199073
9781134826605
1134826605
9781134826551
1134826559
9781134826599
1134826591

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Working girls.DDC classification:

791.43/652042 21

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.W6 T36 1998eb

Other classification:

24.34

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Contents:

Cross-dressing, aspiration, and transformation -- Cowgirl tales -- Action women : muscles, mothers, and others -- Investigating women : work, criminality, and sexuality -- 'New Hollywood', new film noir, and the femme fatale -- Female friendship : melodrama, romance, feminism -- Acting funny : comedy and authority -- Music, video, cinema : singers and movie stars -- Performers and producers.

Summary: How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat, the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers.

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Filmography: pages 219-222.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.

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How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat, the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers.

English.

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