Table of Contents: American domesticity :

Main Author:	McHugh, Kathleen Anne.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Women in motion pictures. Housework in motion pictures. Feminism in motion pictures. Feminism and motion pictures. Housekeeping in motion pictures. Femmes au cinéma. Féminisme au cinéma. Femmes au foyer au cinéma. Économie domestique au cinéma. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference. Feminism. Housekeeping. Motion pictures. Women. Huishoudelijke arbeid. Huisvrouwen. Handboeken.
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Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION: Swept Away: The Truth about Dirt; I: HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK; ONE: Housekeeping by the Book: From Hints to Home Economics; TWO: Making Home, Making Nation: Catharine Beecher's Domestic Economy; THREE: Tayloring the Home: The Fantasy of Domestic Engineering; II: HOUSEKEEPING IN HOLLYWOOD; FOUR: Silent Film, Silent Work: Early Cinema and the Domestic Melodramas of D.W. Griffith; FIVE: Lessons in Labor and Love: The Melodramatic Imperatives of Hollywood Housekeeping; SIX: The Labor of Maternal Melodramas: Converting Angels to Icons; III: HOUSEKEEPING AGAINST THE GRAIN.