Films designed for a female audience such as "Pretty Woman", "Legally Blonde", and "Confessions of a Shopaholic" exploit the conventions of the romance. This title examines how Hollywood has responded to women's changing social roles through an analysis of a flourishing sub-genre 'the Girly Film', a[...]

Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary film[...]

Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Tra[...]