Books written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
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Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
( " Chic ' 1934 ) Combining the bus story with elements of comedy and romance , It Happened One Night inaugurated a new cycle of ' madcap heiress on the run ' films , not all of which have subsequently been considered screwball comedies ...
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Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation, and Feminist Inquiry
Throughout the collection, the Gothic heroine's representation is explored within the medium, which brings together image, movement, and sound, and this technological fact takes on varied significance.
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Star Attractions: Twentieth-century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom
Twentieth-century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Lies Lanckman ... Ibid., 18; see also Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings; Walker, Women's Magazines and Shaping Our Mothers' World. 12. See Sumiko Higashi, Stars, ...
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Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom
Redressing a surprisingly meagre body of work on Doris Day, this book investigates why the rigid view of Day's maintained virginity should have arisen and become so fixed to the star, even now.
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Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
example, Kate and Leopold seems to reference the romantic dinner Elliot prepares for Paula in The Goodbye Girl, repeating the heroine's surprised arrival in a transformed wonderland high above the teeming city. While Elliot himself sang ...
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Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film
Her publications include New Millennial Sexstyles (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), and Goth's Dark Empire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). She also coedits the online journals Genders (www.genders.org) and ...
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Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film
A critical and in-depth investigation of how virginity is represented in film.
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Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation, and Feminist Inquiry
... westerns. He is also the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight (Bloomsbury ...
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Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film
... temptation offered here echoes her earlier rejection, at the Runway benefit, of Christian, who arrives as she ... film shows Andy back in New York City and in what, compared to the costumes since her transformation, seem to be 'normal ...
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Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom
... Fan magazines, as such, are in the process of being reappraised as potential sources within star studies, as the current collection also demonstrates. The study of these fan magazines for the purpose of fan studies, however, is still ...