Unlikely couples : movie romance as social criticism /

Unlikely couples : movie romance as social criticism /

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Author / Creator:Wartenberg, Thomas E.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
Description:xxi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Thinking through cinema
Thinking through cinema.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:
Love in motion pictures.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10515799
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Other authors / contributors:American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:0813334381
081333439X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Table of Contents:
  • Filmography
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Subversive Potential of the Unlikely Couple Film
  • Notes
  • Part 1. Class
  • 2. Pygmalion: The Flower Girl and the Bachelor
  • Notes
  • 3. It Happened One Night: An Education in Humility
  • Notes
  • 4. Pretty Woman a Fairy Tale of Oedipalized Capitalism
  • Notes
  • 5. White Palace Dustbuster Epiphanies
  • Notes
  • Part 2. Race
  • 6. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Does Father Really Know Best?
  • Notes
  • 7. Jungle Fever: Souring on Forbidden Fruit
  • Notes
  • 8. Mississippi Masala: Love in a Postcolonial World
  • Notes
  • 9. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: The Privileges of """"Race""""
  • Notes
  • Part 3. Sexual Orientation
  • 10. Desert Hearts: Betting on Lesbian Love
  • Notes
  • 11. the Crying Game: Loving in Ignorance
  • Notes
  • 12. Movie Romance and the Critique of Hierarchy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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