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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Film Studies
1. The Early Thirties: Modernity, New Women, and the Aesthetic of Attractions
2. Normative Desires and Visual Sobriety: Apogee of the Classical Model
3. The Male Subject of Noir and the Modern Gaze
4. (Dis)Adventures of Female Desire in the 1940s Woman's Film
5. Excess, Spectacle, Sensation: Family Melodrama in the 1950s
6. Performative Bodies and Non-referential Images: Excesses of the Musical
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