Jeanine Basinger

I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies

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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, leading film historian Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with the tricky subject of marriage, 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, and even to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one). A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8041-6974-5
EAN: 9780804169745
Produktnummer: 15262386
Verlag: Vintage
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 395 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.7 cm 412 g
Gewicht: 412

Über den Autor

Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written nine other books on film, including A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Film History Award; Anthony Mann; The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre; and American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking, the companion book for a ten-part PBS series.