A Woman's View Quotes

“I am always astonished at how so much writing about old movies assumes that the audience believed everything in them. Of course we didn’t. We entered into the joyful conspiracy of moviegoing.”
― Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

“Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.”
― Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

“Thus jewelry in a woman’s film means beauty, power, nobility, or evil, depending on the situation. The evil woman covets jewelry. A good woman does not really want it, just as she is not supposed to want economic power; that is why, in many films, she returns it to her man in his hour of need.”
― Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960