"I Do Want to Live!": Female Voices, Male Discourse, and Hollywood Biopics

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Authors and Corporations: Bingham, Dennis
In: Cinema Journal, 38, 1999, 3, p. 3-26
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University of Texas Press
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 3-26
ISSN: 0009-7101
1527-2087
published in: Cinema Journal
Language: English
Collection: sid-55-col-jstoras3
JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive
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<p>Complicating cherished assumptions about film biography, the fifties, and female spectatorship, "I Want to Live!" finds male filmmakers identifying with a female protagonist in opposition to the male institutions of the media and the law in a work that aligns melodrama with realism.</p>