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Talkies Road Movies and Chick Flicks by Heidi Wilkins, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
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Talkies Road Movies and Chick Flicks by Heidi Wilkins, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
From Heidi Wilkins
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From Heidi Wilkins
Talkies Road Movies and Chick Flicks by Heidi Wilkins, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Current price: $155.99
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The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perceived as perpetuating rigid, binary views of gender, and reinforcing patriarchal, dominant notions of masculinity and femininity. Whileprevious scholarly discussion has focused on visual or narrative portrayals of gender, this book considers the ways that film sound - music, voice, sound effects and silence - is used to represent gender. Taking a socio-historical approach, Heidi Wilkins investigates a range of popular US genresincluding screwball comedy, the road movie and chick flicks to explore the ways that film sound can reinforce traditional assumptions about masculinity and femininity, impart ambivalent meanings to them, or even challenge and subvert the notion of gender itself. Case studies include Mildred Pierce, Alien and The Deer Hunter. | Talkies Road Movies and Chick Flicks by Heidi Wilkins, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters