Knopf Publishing Group | ISBN:0307269167 | File Type: PDF, 384 pages | File size: 64.Mb | Jan. 29th, 2013
Marriage and Family: A History of Marriage in the Movies From one of our leading film historians and interpreters a brilliantly researched irresistibly witty delightfly 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 adt 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 wonderfly telling movies stills posters and ads
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