In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the American film industry experimented with a variety of
new and timely female types which in some way challenged the sexual status quo, including …

In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the American film industry experimented with a variety of
new and timely female types which in some way chal-lenged the sexual status quo …

This dissertation considers the strategies used by film producers to represent the lucrative
but controversial flapper character in the 1920s. By analyzing narrative strategies and …

The consensus among feminist film critics is that the demise of the cult of true womanhood in
early American film can be attributed to a new freedom of filmic discourse in the late teens …

Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture
and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes …

In the course of my studies I came across various important female characters, such as
Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (1850), Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady (1881) …

For a short-lived, amazing period from 1930 to 1934, Hollywood movies portrayed American
life as never before. Women could be flawed adults not merely virginal doormats or wicked …

This study explores the historical experience of American women in the 1940s through a
critical analysis of selected topgrossing Hollywood" women''s films" of the era. Drawing upon …

Classic screwball comedies released from 1934 to 1942 enjoy a reputation as fast-paced,
romantic films in which men and women exchange witty repartee, interacting as equals …

In 1926, a year before the comedy-romance It was released, Photoplay magazine asked a
rather provocative rhetorical question:'What is this quivering-pulsating-throbbing-beating …