The Woman Film of the 1940s Gender Narrative and History 1st Edition by Mckee 1135053693 9781135053697

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• ISBN 10:  1135053693
• ISBN 13:  9781135053697
• Author: Mckee

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II. In addition, in paying tribute to and departing from earlier feminist formulations about gendered spectatorship in cinema, McKee argues that such models emphasized a masculine-centered gaze at the inadvertent expense of understanding other possible modes of identification and gender expression in classical narrative cinema. She proposes ways of understanding gender and narrative based in part on literary narrative theory and ultimately works toward a notion of an androgynous spectatorship and mode of interpretation in the 1940s woman’s film.

Table of contents:

1 Film Theory, Narrative, and the 1940s Woman’s Film

Feminist Film Theory and its Discontents

Revisiting the Scenes of Our Youth: Narrative, Theory, and Narrative Theory

Notes

2 The Fate of One Governess Lost Narrative, History, and Gendered Desire

All this, and Heaven too (1938): A Letter of Introduction

All this, and Heaven too (1940): The Film

L’affaire Praslin: Texts and Contexts

Epilogue

Notes

3 Melodrama, History, and Narrative Recovery

Narrative History and Melodramatic Narrative

That Hamilton Woman: A Patriotic Love Story of the 1940s

Random Harvest: Dislocation of History

Random Harvest: Dislocation of Gender

Notes

4 Temporality and the Past Haunting Narratives and the Postwar Woman’s Film

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: “You’re Empowered by the Captain to Act for him?”

The Portrait of Jennie: Narrative Time and Space

Notes

5 By My Tears I Tell a Story/The “Absent” War

Now, Voyager: “It’s Aunt Charlotte. Every Family has One, You Know.”

Brief Encounter: “Oh, Fred, I’ve been So Foolish. I’ve Fallen in Love.”

Notes

6 Telling the Story Differently Toward an Androgynous Spectatorship and Interpretation

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