Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) [Paperback]

Murray Pomerance (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video | Publication Date: March 31, 2001

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In this book, you can find out how Tweety Bird became a girl, why real men like musicals, and why the heroines of Hong Kong action flicks are not the sweet, submissive women of yore. Unlike many other film criticism collections, which concentrate on the representation of a particular group or genre, this volume collects a range of writings on a number of very different and specific topics and links them together through the rubric of gender. Pomerance (sociology, Ryerson Polytechnic Univ., Toronto) has divided the book into three main areas: gender in non-American films, gender as coded through actions, and transgressive representations of gender that are held up as "paragons or pariahs." While the range of topics makes the volume difficult to pin down conceptually, the essays are, for academic work, quite readable. This collection is unusual enough to warrant a spot in most academic libraries with collections devoted to film studies or gender issues. Andrea Slonosky, Long Island Univ., Brooklyn, NY
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About the Author

Murray Pomerance is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson Polytechnic University, and the author of Magia D'Amore and coeditor of Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot! Essays on Guns and Popular Culture.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (March 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079144886X
• ISBN-13: 978-0791448861
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #524,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)