"Before She Was a Virgin. ..": Doris Day and the Decline of Female Film Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Doris Day's complicated "dialogue" with her audiences varied over the decades, and endures, in a distorted way, in popular memory. This article studies the decline of her film stardom and her retirement from films as concurrent with the definitive end of the female comic as the unequivocal subject, rather than object, of comedy.
Source: Cinema Journal
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2006.0025
Author: Dennis Bingham
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2006580102