A Caper of One's Own: Fantasy Female Liberation in 1960s Crime Comedy Film

Autor:	Robert von Dassanowsky
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Hollywood Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Art Conservatism Comedy Feminism Politics Counterculture Fantasy Gender role media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Popular Film and Television. 35:107-118
ISSN:	1930-6458 0195-6051
DOI:	10.3200/jpft.35.3.107-118
Popis:	Appreciated today only for the style of the early- and mid-1960s Hollywood studio product, the crime comedy film featured strong female roles that paralleled the collapse of the traditional female roles in the era's spy films. Influenced by Hitchcock's sexualized women and Audrey Hepburn's independent 1950s gamines, the female "caper" character of the 1960s signals a dislocation of women's roles brought on by a world caught between hedonism and political avowal. In this short-lived subgenre, larcenous-minded men are thwarted, mostly to their own advantage, in their attempt to force female accomplices and love interests into prescribed social behavior and appearance. The lack of an overt counterculture in these films has branded them "establishment" products, supposedly rife with the social and gender role conservatism they actually challenge and destabilize.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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