Classic Hollywood : lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960

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Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964- author

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Studies of 'Classic Hollywood' typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies i...

Studies of 'Classic Hollywood' typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she breaks down the so-called classic period into six distinct phases that follow Hollywood's amazingly diverse offerings from the emancipated females of the 'Transition Era' and the traditional men and women of the conservative 1930's that replaced it to the fantastical Fifties movie musicals that arose after anti-classic genres like film noir and women's films. Pravadelli sets her analysis apart by paying particular attention to the gendered desires and identities exemplified in the films.

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