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Article: A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960.
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- Cineaste
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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A book about the 'woman's film,' and written in clear, intelligible prose, is almost as alluring as the best of the films themselves. A Woman's View, a bulging, 500-page meander through many movies, performs an important double function of reminding us of the large numbers of women's films and of the contradictory values Hollywood deliberately built into them. Despite its girth and intelligence, however, the book is thin on substance and revelation. And although written pleasantly, it has neither the stylistic brilliance nor the semiological obfuscation to conceal its lacks. Basinger pitches her discussion to a very wide audience, presumably aiming to create a popular book, ...
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