Dreaming Identities

Class, Gender, And Generation In 1980s Hollywood Movies
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-15418-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This book emphasizes specific aspects of cinematic representations of gender and authority, highlighting the multiple, competing versions of masculinity and femininity constructed in Hollywood movies in the 1980s and the different class positions of their primary, intended audiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Traube, Elizabeth G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Credits -- Introduction -- The Return of the Repressed: Lucas and Spielberg’s Temple of Doom -- Redeeming Images: The Wild Man Comes Home -- Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society -- Transforming Heroes: Hollywood and the Demonization of Women -- Who Will Do the Caring? Domestic Men and Independent Women in the Movies

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth G. Traube is professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Cosmology and Social Life (1986).