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In Pam Cook’s influential discussion of the woman’s film, she poses the question:
… why does the women’s picture exist? There is no such thing as ‘the men’s picture’, specifically addressed to men; there is only ‘cinema’ and ‘the women’s picture,’ a subgroup or category specifically designed for more than half the population, relegating them to the margins of cinema proper. (Cook, 1983: 17)
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Garrett, R. (2007). The Early 1990s ‘Postmodernist’ Melodrama: Female Virtue in the Consumer Age. In: Postmodern Chick Flicks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230801523_3
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