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840814
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Gallafent, Edward
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Adultery and the female star /\ Edward Gallafent.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018.
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Palgrave close readings in film and television
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1 online resource
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1137352248
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: 9781137352248
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: 9781349674886
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: 9781349674893
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113735223X
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9781137352231
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Background; How Do We Define Adultery?; Critical Approaches; Adultery and Absence; Husbands and Wives; Adultery and Place; Adaptation and Censorship; Roads Not Taken: Other Stars, and Star Studies; The Corpus; Chapter 2 Bette Davis: 1937 to 1943-Motherhood; Introducing Davis: The Bad Sister; That Certain Woman; Lloyd; Jack; Jackie; The Penetrable Home; Intervening Films; The Old Maid; Aunt Charlotte; Interiors and Exteriors; All This, and Heaven Too; Locations; The Letter; The Great Lie; Intervening Films
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Chapter 4 Kim Novak: 1954 to 1964-The StrangerPushover; Picnic and The Man with the Golden Arm; The Eddy Duchin Story and Jeanne Eagels; Pal Joey; Vertigo; Scottie and Midge; Elster's Girl; Bell, Book and Candle; Three Early 1960s Films; Middle of the Night; Strangers When We Meet; Kiss Me, Stupid; 4 Pm; Evening; Night; Morning; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Meryl Streep: 1979 to 1985-The Present and the Past; The Seduction of Joe Tynan; The Affair; The Benton Films; The French Lieutenant's Woman; The Adaptation; The Past; The Present; Sophie's Choice; Silkwood; Falling in Love; Plenty; Out of Africa
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ConclusionChapter 6 Conclusion; Motherhood and Children; Place; Death; Four Endings; Bibliography; Index
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Now, VoyagerOld Acquaintance; Conclusion; Adaptation; Adultery and Marriage; Chapter 3 Joan Fontaine: 1939 to 1950-Devotion; The Women; Rebecca; The Structure of Rebecca; Joan's Story-Three Sequences; Intervening Films; The Constant Nymph; Goulding's Film; The Child-Wife and the Childish Husband; Lewis; Jane Eyre; Intervening Films; Letter from an Unknown Woman; The Schoolgirl; The Mistress; The Mother; The Scene of Adultery; Expiation; Intervening Romances; Born to Be Bad; Portraits and Their Value; Punishment; September Affair; A World of Tourism; Conclusion
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This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about the sheer volume of adultery in film by focusing on specific periods in the work of these four major Hollywood actresses who have each performed roles that share some features but also contain points of difference. The periods discussed cover Davis's work in 1937 to 1943, Fontaine's work between 1939 and 1950, Novak in 1954 to 1964, and finally Streep's work between 1979 and 1985. Closely analysing both established classics and lesser known films, Edward Gallafent explores the work of a broad range of directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Max Ophüls, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder. Adultery and the Female Star explores topics such as motherhood, the significance of place, censorship, and adaptation, and is the first book of its kind to take on the topic of adultery in relation to these four actresses. It ultimately argues that our understanding of the adultery narrative is tightly bound up with our understanding of the Hollywood stars that depict it.
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Adultery.
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Leading ladies (Actresses)
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Man-woman relationships in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Adultery.
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Leading ladies (Actresses)
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Man-woman relationships in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.436543
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PN1995.9.M27
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