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  title info:
    title: Adultery and the Female Star
  name:
    name part: Gallafent, Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 234 p. 21 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about the sheer volume of adultery in film by focusing on specific periods in the work of these four major Hollywood actresses who have each performed roles that share some features but also contain points of difference. The periods discussed cover Davis's work in 1937 to 1943, Fontaine's work between 1939 and 1950, Novak in 1954 to 1964, and finally Streep's work between 1979 and 1985. Closely analysing both established classics and lesser known films, Edward Gallafent explores the work of a broad range of directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Max Ophüls, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder. Adultery and the Female Star explores topics such as motherhood, the significance of place, censorship, and adaptation, and is the first book of its kind to take on the topic of adultery in relation to these four actresses. It ultimately argues that our understanding of the adultery narrative is tightly bound up with our understanding of the Hollywood stars that depict it. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Bette Davis: 1937-43: Motherhood -- 3. Joan Fontaine: 1939-50: Devotion -- 4. Kim Novak: 1954-64: The Stranger -- 5. Meryl Streep: 1979-85: The Present and the Past -- 6. Conclusion. .
  note: by Edward Gallafent.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Close Reading
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  classification: GN301-674
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
  identifier: 9781137352248
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35224-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 180524
    record change date: 20191026091805.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-35224-8