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Attention to Detail: Epistolary Discourse and Contemporary Cinema

Higgins, Teri

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women struggled to find a public voice amidst an oppressive patriarchal culture. Women turned to private writing forms in order to find a voice, and thus the diary and the letter ...
Narratives of desperation : 'genre, gender, and Desperate Housewives

Higgins, Teri

This thesis investigates the history of the term 'desperation' when applied to female film and television genres, before examining how the first series Desperate Housewives draws from and adds to this history. In addition ...