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Basinger, Jeanine.
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Marriage in motion pictures.
Marriage in popular culture.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Basinger, Jeanine.
Marriage in motion pictures.
Marriage in popular culture.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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I do and I don't : a history of marriage in the movies / Jeanine Basinger.
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Basinger, Jeanine.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Call #:
791
.43655
B313i
Subjects
Marriage in motion pictures.
Marriage in popular culture.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780307269164 (hc.)
0307269167 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxviii, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of "the marriage movie": what it is (or isn't) and what it has to tell us about the movies--and ourselves. As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them--perhaps because unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is "happily ever after"--except when things aren't happy, and when "ever after" is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy. or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies--and audiences--work, Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights to Tracy and Hepburn to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one). A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movies stills, posters, and ads"--Provided by publisher.
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