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#'''All Groups:''' What theme does Haskell see that entwines the domestic and the romantic?
 
#'''All Groups:''' What theme does Haskell see that entwines the domestic and the romantic?
  
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==Recent melodramas==
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Film melodramas released since 2000.
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*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247425/ In the Bedroom]'' (2001)
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*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281358/ A Walk to Remember]'' (2002)
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*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283139/ White Oleander]'' (2002)
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
 
#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.
 
#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.

Revision as of 14:43, 17 March 2014

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?

Recent melodramas

Film melodramas released since 2000.

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.

Footnotes

  1. In spring 2010, this discussion was combined with Domestic Melodrama Since World War II (Discussion), into Domestic Melodrama as Genre (2010 Discussion).