Article: All the President's Men as a woman's film.(Critical essay)

Abstract: The author reads Alan J. Pakula's 1976 film as a "woman's film." The vignettes focused on women witnesses to the cover-up of the Watergate burglary reveal the pattern of seduction and abandonment common to soap opera and melodrama. The "woman's film" is a suitable genre through which to address the deep distress suffered by the nation at the discovery of presidential (patriarchal) betrayal.

Keywords: Stanley Cavell, Molly Haskell, Emmanuel Levinas. melodrama, Alan J. Pakula, Washington Post, Watergate, "woman's film"

Alan J. Pakula's 1976 film All the President's Men fits loosely into several generic categories, firmly into none. It is most ...

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