Browsing Media, Film and Communication collection by Author "Higgins, Teri"
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Attention to Detail: Epistolary Discourse and Contemporary Cinema
Higgins, TeriIn 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, TeriThis 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 ...