10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEEPIE»
Discover the use of
weepie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
weepie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Double Vision: Perspectives on Gender and the Visual Arts
The woman's film or "woman's weepie," as it was perjoratively dubbed, was the
soap opera of its day. It was designed to cater to the moviegoing demographics
of the 1930s and 1940s, an era when adult females formed the crux of cinema ...
Natalie Harris Bluestone, 1995
2
The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
ntti JfacAwe his other films) after seeing a 1957 Hollywood "weepie" called
Interlude. Interlude is a story of a passing romance between June Allyson and a
European orchestra conductor, played by Rossano Brazzi, from which Allyson ...
Sirk is either praised for making extraordinary films in spite of the exigencies of
the weepie as a genre, or else it is the weepie-genre itself which is validated, and
Sirk is brought forward as its most accomplished practitioner. Indeed it is these ...
Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer, 1991
4
Heroines of Popular Culture
This kind of melodrama, in which the film's director, John Stahl, specialized, is
more familiarly known as the woman's picture, or "weepie," and simply as a
weepie, Only Yesterday remains both exemplary and irresistible. Its heroine
meets the ...
5
Moving Images: Understanding Children's Emotional Responses ...
I thought it's a weepie, the film is a weepie film, it's not, I don't think it's scary at all,
just a weepie film and / I was taken aback, and I said 'why do you find it [scary]?' '
Got them big hands, big things on his, big pointed scissors on his hands' .
6
Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama
Weepie. The aging patriarch and tormented, inadequate son appear most
frequently in the aristocracy variation, although they occasionally are part of
middle- class families as well. In films like Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than
Life, Tea ...
7
Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment
RussellBaker (1982) called the film Chariotsof Fire a sentimental story about
young men struggling to become champion runners, a“male weepie.” Men in the
audience, he said, like a good cryjust as much aswomen do; however, according
to ...
8
A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, ...
Compare chick flick; tearjerker. woman's weepie; weepie n. [A regionalism of the
U.K.] See tear- jerker. Women in Cable & Telecommunications; WICT n. The
oldest and largest professional association serving women in the cable television
...
9
Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies
Weepie? Although the film narrates its story almost entirely through the focus of
Eva and her perspective, and although it has all the ingredients of the 'women's
film' or 'weepie', it seems not to fit properly into this genre. It eschews the sort of ...
Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber, 2003
10
Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and ...
Linda Williams defines the woman's movie (or “weepie”) as a film “addressed to
women in their traditional status under patriarchy — as wives, mothers,
abandoned lovers.”36 Best Years is not addressed to these women; Wyler makes
clear in ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEEPIE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
weepie is used in the context of the following news items.
Movie Review: 'Me and Earl' Director Livens Up a By-the-Numbers …
In the hands of filmmakers as energetic as Andrews and Gomez-Rejon, the teen weepie is a story that can be retold as many times as you can fully drench a ... «Valley News, Jul 15»
Diverting Canine Weepie Max Offers No Surprises
Yakin's new movie, Max, adds yet another genre to the fold — it's a canine sort-of-weepie with war-movie coating — and Yakin executes the touching material ... «Phoenix New Times, Jun 15»
The Longest Ride review: Saddle up for this sprawling weepie
The sprawling weepie is essentially two pictures in one, which goes some way to justifying its buttock-testing running time. The narrative is split between two ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jun 15»
The Paper Dolls review – Julia Donaldson adaptation is a puppet …
So I'm steeling myself for our first bit of weepie theatre when we arrive at the Little Angel for a preview of their adaptation, a co-production with Polka, directed by ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
A Wartime weepie: Suite Francaise - A tale of forbidden love
With such a fascinating backstory, it was hard not to have high expectations of Suite Française, the film adaption of Irène Némirovsky's bestselling novel of the ... «Jewish News, Mar 15»
James Bay interview: 'As a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so …
“As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs,” he notes with a self-mocking grin. Still, does he fear that ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
History Weepie Strikes Chord with Korean Americans
Distributor CJ Entertainment on Wednesday said "Ode to My Father" drew over 6,000 viewers just four days into its Christmas-Day release at the CGV in Los ... «The Chosun Ilbo, Jan 15»
Fancy a weepie? The midwife always delivers! Here Call the …
Even for July it's a hot day, and everyone's sweating. No wonder; there's a roaring fire, a huge Christmas tree in the corner and everyone's dressed for winter, ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
Apple joins the weepie Christmas advert bandwagon
After John Lewis gave us Monty the Penguin and Sainsbury's took us back to the legendary Great War football match, Apple has joined in the trend for weepie ... «Digital Spy UK, Dec 14»
Regional volleyball: Weepie powers Wapsie sweep
Wapsie Valley's Haley Weepie, right, goes up for a kill attempt against Jesup's Bri Weber, left, and Emily DeWald during Tuesday's regional matchup in Fairbank. «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Oct 14»
