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- Title
DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT AND THE SPACES OF AMERICAN MODERNITY IN EARLY 1930S WOMAN'S FILMS.
- Authors
LAFONTAINE, ANDRÉE
- Abstract
In this article, I deploy a chronotopic analysis of early 1930s woman's films to flesh out semiotic and phenomenological representations of American modernity through the figure of the modern woman. I emphasize how concrete film spaces--the private spaces of modern apartments and the public and work spaces of hotels, office buildings, and department stores--function as expressions of the modern woman chronotope in both semiotic--as producers and conveyors of meaning--and phenomenological senses--permitting a certain way of being. This will serve to show how a progressive vision of American modernity was articulated through the figure of the modern woman in early 1930s Hollywood films, and that as a chronotope, the modern woman was intimately linked with a hopeful conception of American democracy.
- Subjects
MOTION pictures for women; SET design; MODERNITY in motion pictures; PHENOMENOLOGY; AMERICAN films
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 2, p68
- ISSN
0847-5911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/CJFS.26.2.2017-0008