New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941)
In several Hollywood movies on the antebellum South, the city of New Orleans pivots upon an unruly woman, ill-adapted to the codes and customs of the country, to serve the cinematographic portrayal of the 19th century Louisiana city, viewed as a topos of cultural and sexual instabilities, as well as...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2016-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5343 |
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