Mick Lasalle: 2 books
Complicated Women
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema were modern! For five short years women in American cinema were modern! They took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers and, in general, acted the way many think women only...
The Beauty of the Real
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent—a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses...