ENGLISH

Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories

By Tania Modleski

Book information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0814755933, 9780814755938
LCC
PS152 .M63 1998
Google Books ID
-IliQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL365054M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
610 kB (624182 bytes)
Pages
249\249
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.

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