Philip Green - Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood
Here you can read online Philip Green - Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1998, publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
Book:
Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood
Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Hollywood deals in messages big enough to get through to the densest lummox among us. Cracks in the Pedestal ably points out how Hollywood films and television shows drive home the dominant American ideology and mirror rigid cultural sex roles in a million huge and little ways. Even when social transformations brought about by feminism crop up, the screen images are distorted. When Susan Sarandon plays a lawyer tough enough to go up against the government on behalf of an 11-year-old boy in The Client, for example, its the bantam-weight man-child who heroically saves her from violence. When a muscular Sigourney Weaver plays the woman warrior Ripley in Aliens, her character is redeemed by a maternal streak. And God help the woman who steps out of line sexually: shes apt to be killed or unfulfilled. Frequent academic throat-clearing and sometimes pretentious prose mar an otherwise intriguing, well-argued book. It reminds us that while movies and television may be fantasy, they enforce a certain world view, beaming it nightly into our homes and around the globe.
Philip Green: author's other books
Who wrote Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Cracks in the Pedestal : Ideology and Gender in Hollywood
author
:
Green, Philip.
publisher
:
University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1558491198
print isbn13
:
9781558491199
ebook isbn13
:
9780585083544
language
:
English
subject
Women in motion pictures, Women on television, Feminism and motion pictures, Feminist film criticism.
publication date
:
1998
lcc
:
PN1995.9.W6G74 1998eb
ddc
:
791.43/652042
subject
:
Women in motion pictures, Women on television, Feminism and motion pictures, Feminist film criticism.
Page iii
Cracks in the Pedestal
Ideology and Gender in Hollywood
Philip Green
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
Page iv
Copyright 1998 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed and bound in the United States of America LC 97-21775 ISBN 1-55849-119-8 (cloth); 120-1 (pbk.) Designed by Mary Mendell Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Green, Philip, 1932 Cracks in the pedestal : ideology and gender in Hollywood / Philip Green. P. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-119-8 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-120-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women in motion pictures. 2. Women in television. 3. Feminism and motion pictures. 4. Feminist film criticism. 1. Title. PN1995.9.W6G74 1998 791.43'652042dC2197-21775 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
Part I Foundations Of Social Order
1 Ideology, Gender, and Visual Culture
15
2 Erasures
32
3 Ideological Destinies
48
4 Recuperating the Sexual Order
77
5 Media Structures and Dominant Ideas
100
Page vi
Part II Cracks In The Pedestal
6 Resistance and Opposition
119
7 "Put the Blame on Mame...": Ambivalence and Ambiguity
139
8 What the Male Gaze Sees: "Women You Don't Mess With"
157
9 What the Male Gaze Sees: The Wrath of the Medusa
189
Notes
213
Index
249
Illustrations follow page 86
Page vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book grew out of my interaction with the students in a Smith College seminar, "Ideology, Politics, and Culture," which I have been teaching for the past decade. My thanks go to all those students (only some of whom I was able to acknowledge by name in the text), whose caustic, witty, and insightful commentaries on Hollywood films and network television bear necessarily unacknowledged traces on virtually every one of its pages. I was also inspired by an unsurpassed learning experience, Deborah Linderman's Smith College Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Film, and by many stimulating conversations with Linderman about cinema in general and various movies in particular. In addition, I benefited greatly from the comments of Laura Green, Robert Green, Barbara and Leonard Quart, Ben Singer, and Elizabeth Young. The entire manuscript was read by Susan J. Douglas and Joel Kovel, whose comments were greatly appreciated; and for the University of Massachusetts
Page viii
Press by a superlative copy editor, Betty Waterhouse. Clark Dougan, my editor at the Press, first had the idea for this book; I've been helped immeasurably by his encouragement, guidance, and friendly criticism.
Similar books «Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood»
Look at similar books to Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Reviews about «Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood»
Discussion, reviews of the book Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
