This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private

"Brilliantly argued and lucidly written . . . the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema." —Tania Modleski " . . . c

Heather Laing examines, for the first time, the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, but that have until now remained

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director,