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Appendix 3.1: Analytic methods - 6 films from 1954

GROUP 1

GROUP 2

GROUP 3________

GROUP 4_________

1: Helen

2: Helen's
mother

3: Glenn's
mother

5: Singer and
chorus line
performing

'Tuxedo
Junction'
6: 'Old widow
lady', owner of
the State
Ballroom,
(absent but
referred to)
7 : Guests
dancing in the
ballroom
8 : Guests
dancing to
'String of
Pearls'

9 : Adopted baby
10: Dancer in
the film image
when the band
rehearses
'Tuxedo
Junction'

11: Nurses
accompanying
wounded GIs at
open air
concert, London
12 : Frances
Langford,
singer, and
uniformed
backing group
in airplane
hangar concert

DEFINITIONS OF WOMEN OFFERED VIA FEMALE CHARACTERS

Articulating the ways in which women are defined in popular
films entails, inevitably, drawing on the plurality of
discourses by means of which the world outside the cinema is
habitually negotiated. I refer to the variety of strategies
which enable recognition, more or less successfully, of the
heterogenous social positioning of individuals. This variety
can be succinctly reduced to the following main terms: gender,

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