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==Readings==
 
==Readings==
 
===Molly Haskell===
 
===Molly Haskell===
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#'''Group 1:''' What three types of women does Haskell find in the woman's film?  Who would be a recent example of each type?
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#'''Group 3:''' What three types of women does Haskell find in the woman's film?  Who would be a recent example of each type?
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#What are the woman's film's four main themes? Do you see them operating in the two melodramas we've viewed: ''Ordinary People'' ('''Group 2:''') and ''Imitation of Life'' (1934--'''Group 3:''')? How about in a recent American film?
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#What are the woman's film's four main themes? Do you see them operating in the two melodramas we've viewed: ''Ordinary People'' ('''Group 4:''') and ''Imitation of Life'' (1934--'''Group 1:''')?
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#'''Group 4:''' How is ''hostility'' toward children expressed in the woman's film? Have you seen it in a recent American film?
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#*How about in a recent American film?
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#'''Grad Group:''' Haskell discusses Joan Crawford's image at length--starting on p. 175 (CP p. 197). (Crawford stars in the last film of the semester, ''Mildred Pierce''.) What "transition" does Haskell see that image going through? And what significance does she argue that transition has?
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#'''Group 2:''' How is ''hostility'' toward children expressed in the woman's film? Have you seen it in a recent American film?
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#'''All Groups:''' What impact does the issue of race have on the woman's film? Compare/contrast the white and black mothers (Bea and Delilah, respectively) in ''Imitation of Life''.
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#'''All Groups:''' What theme does Haskell see that entwines the domestic and the romantic?
  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==

Revision as of 15:32, 1 April 2009

Readings

Molly Haskell

  1. Group 3: What three types of women does Haskell find in the woman's film? Who would be a recent example of each type?
  2. What are the woman's film's four main themes? Do you see them operating in the two melodramas we've viewed: Ordinary People (Group 4:) and Imitation of Life (1934--Group 1:)?
    • How about in a recent American film?
  3. Group 2: How is hostility toward children expressed in the woman's film? Have you seen it in a recent American film?
  4. All Groups: What impact does the issue of race have on the woman's film? Compare/contrast the white and black mothers (Bea and Delilah, respectively) in Imitation of Life.
  5. All Groups: What theme does Haskell see that entwines the domestic and the romantic?

Bibliography

  1. Molly Haskell, "The Woman's Film," in From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (New York: Penguin, 1974; revised edition 1987) 153-188.
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