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So many of our ideas about romance are drawn from the movies. Virginia Wright Wexman claims that in the 20th century our notions of love, sexuality, and "the couple" have been defined by the Hollywood film. Creating the Couple unpacks such ideals. She shows how the cinema's conception of love has been transformed over the years by tracing its development from D. W. Griffith's silent masterpiece Way Down East to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Wexman explores the way images of couplehood changed when confronted by the Hollywood star system, by the love goddess craze, by the method actor, and by the destabilization of conventional ideas of romance in the 1970s and '80s. Creating the Couple offers thoroughly researched analysis, and is lucidly written and intriguingly argued.
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The pages are bursting with discussions of classics such as The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevard, On the Waterfront and Nashville. The book explores not only the relationships between men and women in these movies but also the specific acting techniques of the stars and their lives off screen.
Creating the Couple
Creating the Couple,Virginia Wexman Wexman,Princeton University Press,069101535X,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Love in motion pictures,Media Studies - Electronic Media,Motion picture acting,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Social aspects,United States,Film Studies,Gender Studies,Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
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