American domesticity: from how-to manual to Hollywood melodrama
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1. Verfasser: MacHugh, Kathleen Anne 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford Univ. Press 1999
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
INTRODUCTION: Swept Away: The Truth about Dirt; I: HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK; ONE: Housekeeping by the Book: From Hints to Home Economics; TWO: Making Home, Making Nation: Catharine Beecher's Domestic Economy; THREE: Tayloring the Home: The Fantasy of Domestic Engineering; II: HOUSEKEEPING IN HOLLYWOOD; FOUR: Silent Film, Silent Work: Early Cinema and the Domestic Melodramas of D.W. Griffith; FIVE: Lessons in Labor and Love: The Melodramatic Imperatives of Hollywood Housekeeping; SIX: The Labor of Maternal Melodramas: Converting Angels to Icons; III: HOUSEKEEPING AGAINST THE GRAIN.
This work considers American representations of domesticity and domestic labour over the last two centuries in historical, popular and feminist texts. The author asserts that the political power and effectivity of the idea of "normative domestic femininity" cannot be overestimated
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ISBN:1423760093
9781423760092
1602563020
9781602563025
0195352726
9780195352726
1280470844
9781280470844

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