Taking De Lauretis' proposition that popular cinema is a 'technology of gender' the book explores the representation of women and the readerly activity of female audience members in respect of a group of eighteen films successful at the British box office between 1945 and 1965. A method for the analysis of fictional characters is presented and the discursive context within which contemporary meanings were formed is explored through reference to the press, particularly that addressed to a female readership.

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Book Title: Celluloid Sisters
Book Subtitle: Women And Popular Cinema
Authors: Janet Thumim
Editors: Jo Campling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21961-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21961-2Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 264
Topics: Screen Studies, Gender Studies

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