Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema

by Janet Staiger

Charts the cultural tensions played out on-screen in early American cinema.

It was a new age, and on movie screens the American middle class presented its visions of sexual morality, with definitions of good women and bad. Bad Women takes us back to this time of massive social, cultural, and economic change to show us how American cinema gave women and women's sexuality images useful to the new consumer culture of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816626251
• ISBN13: 9780816626250
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"