The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks is a lively guide to the movies women love, from melodramas to biopics, thrillers to rom-coms. Sassy, informed and occasionally unexpected, it celebrates women's films of every kind.
• The history: Silent sirens, screwball dames, blonde bombshells, power dressers and indie chicks.
• The must-sees: The lowdown on 50 essential women's movies, from Breakfast At Tiffany's and Bend It Like Beckham to Pretty Woman and The Piano – with a fair few surprises thrown in.
• The faces: Heroines and heart-throbs from Audrey Hepburn to Julia Roberts, Cary Grant to Hugh Grant, not forgetting key writers, directors and costume designers.
• Chick lit and chick flicks: Tracing the relationship between the books and the movies, with juicy back stories about the best women writers from Louisa May Alcott to Virginia Woolf.
• Women of the world: Historical classics and contemporary hits from countries as different as Australia and Iran. Visit the author's blog for news and updates on this title. |