TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tasker,Yvonne
TI  - Working girls: gender and sexuality in popular cinema 
SN  - 0415246253
AV  - PN1995.9.W6 T36 1998eb
U1  - 791.43/652042 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Women in motion pictures
KW  - Women in the motion picture industry
KW  - Femmes au cin�ema
KW  - Femmes dans l'industrie cin�ematographique
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sekserol
KW  - Beeldvorming
KW  - Films
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Filmography: pages 219-222; Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index; Cross-dressing, aspiration, and transformation -- Cowgirl tales -- Action women : muscles, mothers, and others -- Investigating women : work, criminality, and sexuality -- 'New Hollywood', new film noir, and the femme fatale -- Female friendship : melodrama, romance, feminism -- Acting funny : comedy and authority -- Music, video, cinema : singers and movie stars -- Performers and producers
N2  - How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat, the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers
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