Jennifer L. Borda

Women Labor Activists in the Movies

Nine Depictions of Workplace Organizers, 1954-2005

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Produktbeschreibung

Some of the most indelible images of women in recent American film have been of working women fighting for labor reform or to expose corporate corruption. This critical text explores films with female labor activists as main protagonists, illuminating issues of gender and class while depicting the challenges of working class women. Films covered include Salt of the Earth, Pajama Game, Union Maids, With Babies and Banners, Norma Rae, Silkwood, and Live Nude Girls Unite! Through comparative analysis, the text examines the responses of these films to the labor and feminist movements of the last half century, and how American cinema has articulated notions of disempowerment, ambivalence and, at times, the resistance of both women and the working class at large.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780786448418
• ISBN-10: 0786448415
• Artikelnr.: 30216550

Autorenporträt

Jennifer L. Borda is an associate professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in a number of academic journals and scholarly anthologies, including Text & Performance Quarterly, Women's Studies in Communication, Feminist Studies and Communication Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction     
1. Rising Up Against the Dominant: The Multiple Transgressions of Salt of
the Earth     
2. Working-Class Women, Protofeminist Performance, and Resistant Ruptures
in the Movie Musical The Pajama Game     
3. Recovering Women Activists' Voices: Union Maids, With Babies and Banners
, and the Feminist Historical Documentary     
4. Hollywood's Working-Class Heroines: Norma Rae, Silkwood, and the
Politics of the Docudrama     
5. Negotiating Feminist Politics in the Third Wave: Labor Struggle and
Solidarity in Live Nude Girls Unite!     
6. Hollywood's Feminist Labor Heroines Moving Into the Twenty-first
Century: Have We Really Come a Long Way?     
7. Fifty Years of Female Labor Activism in Film: Mapping the Rhetorical
Tensions     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index