{"product_id":"all-that-hollywood-allows","title":"All that Hollywood Allows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll that Hollywood Allows\u003c\/em\u003e explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top-grossing film melodramas, such as \u003cem\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePicnic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Stereotypically viewed as a complacent and idyllic time, the 1950s were actually a time of dislocation and great social change. Jackie Byars argues that mass media texts of the period, especially films, provide evidence of society's consuming preoccupation with the domestic sphere - the nuclear family and its values - and she shows how Hollywood melodramas interpreted and extended societal debates concerning family structure, sexual divisions of labour, and gender roles. Her readings of these films assess a variety of critical methodologies and approaches to textual analysis, some central to feminist film studies and some previously bypassed by scholars in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241377452376,"sku":"9780415071178","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415071178.jpg?v=1770228934","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/all-that-hollywood-allows","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}