Popcorn Venus (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marjorie Rosen
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Gender roles, Women, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Stereotypes, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Women’s movement
Form and Content
Films came into existence in the closing years of the nineteenth century and were thus born in an atmosphere of Victorian morality, but Marjorie Rosen points out that their birth also coincided with, and hastened, the genesis of the modern woman. In Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream, the question Rosen explores is: To what extent has the modern woman found adequate images of herself on the screen? The answer, Rosen suggests, is less than encouraging.
The first two decades of the century constitute the formative years of the...
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