Description: Neo-Feminist Cinema : Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture, Paperback by Radner, Hilary, ISBN 0415877741, ISBN-13 9780415877749, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner's Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on consumer culture within films made for women. By exploring a number of representative "girly films," including Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde, Maid in Manhattan, The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City: The Movie, Radner proposes that rather than being "post-feminist," as is usually assumed, such films are better described as "neo-feminist." Examining their narrative format, as it revolves around the story of an ambitious unmarried woman who defines herself through consumer culture as much as through work or romance, Radner argues that these films exemplify neo-liberalist values rather than those of feminism. As such, Neo-Feminist Cinema offers a new explanation as to why feminist-oriented scholars and audiences who are seeking more than "labels and love" from their film experience have viewed recent "girly films" as a betrayal of second-wave feminism, and why, on the other hand, such films have proven to be so successful at the box office.
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Book Title: Neo-Feminist Cinema : Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Cul
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 340 g
Author: Hilary Radner
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
