Maggie Günsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy from the late 1940s to the early 1970s focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored in five thematic sections, discussing: Desire and the family in melodr…
"In this book Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy from the late 1940s to the early 1970s focusing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored in five thematic sections."--Jacket.
Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division …
Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division …
"This work focuses exclusively on the sexual objectification of African American women in film from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Topics such as the diversity of the female characters' roles and relationships with men, their sexual attitudes, and their nonverbal and verbal sexua…
"Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Politicians, ministers, writers, husbands, fathers, and brothers entreated Anglo-Americ…
