The Woman's Film of the 1940s - Alison L. (San Jose State University McKee - Bog

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman¿s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman¿s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II.