Heroines without heroes : reconstructing female and national identities in European cinema, 1945-51
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Heroines without heroes : reconstructing female and national identities in European cinema, 1945-51
（Women make cinema / Pam Cook, Ginette Vincendeau）
Cassell, 2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology, which contains material from scholars of various national cinemas, explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national identity. The structure of the book is organized to facilitate comparisons, mainly to transcultural issues, but also for identifying variations between the cinemas. The overview essays examine the specific national context out of which representations of women in the immediate post-war period emerged, and the case studies analyze the appeal of emblematic stars such as Margaret Lockwood and Ana Mariscal. These European stars are analyzed in terms of the post-war conditions which were the making of them.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Britain: post-war choices and feminine possibilities
- a place of one's own? - Margaret Lockwood and British film stardom in the 1940s. Part 2 France: evil women and the post-war French cinema
- from stardom to eclipse - Micheline Presle and the post-war French cinema
- the tainted woman - Simone Signoret - site of pathology or agent of retribution? Part 3 German: sweeping in the past - gender and history in the post-war German "Rubble film"
- Hildegard Knef - from rubble woman to fallen woman. Part 4 Italy: what about women? -Italian films and their concerns
- woman of Rome - Anna Magnani
- Part 5 Spain: feminizing the nation - women, subordination and subversion in post Civil War Spanish cinema
- Ana Mariscal - Franco's disavowed star.
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