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Three Girls Movie
Three girls movie is a genre of film which typical centers around the activities, both romantic and professional, of three (sometimes four) girls, usually in an urban setting. According to Laura Jacobs in '' Vanity Fair'', "Requirements were minimal: a big city, three pretty faces, some wolves." It is also known as three girls in the city movies. According to Ann Hornaday of the '' Washington Post'' the genre has been one of Hollywood's most successful since the 1920s: The theme... has been an unusually enduring and lucrative one, exploiting each succeeding era's anxieties surrounding women's changing roles and helping define those eras' new ideas of modern life. In them, audiences can watch women negotiate and sometimes subvert the forces that limn and limit their choices. And each offers its mostly female audience the delectable cake-and-eat-it proposition of a morality tale served with plenty of vicarious vice -- and extravagant dollops of yummy fashion. Most often, it came do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Jacobs
Laura Jacobs is a novelist, journalist, and critic. Jacobs is a regular contributor to '' The Wall Street Journal'', where she reviews museum exhibitions on fashion. She was a staff writer at '' Vanity Fair'' from 1995 to 2018, where she wrote award-winning pieces for the magazine on the subjects of design, fashion, and the performing arts. In 2019, she became the Arts Intel Report editor for AIR MAIL, a weekly international digital newsletter co-edited by Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley. Background and education Laura Jacobs hails from Chicago, Illinois, and holds a B.A. in English Literature from Northwestern University. Works Jacobs's most recent book, published in 2018 asic Booksis ''Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet''. ''The Bird Catcher'', her second novel, was published in June 2009, by St. Martin's Press. In July, 2010 Picador released a paperback edition. Her first novel, ''Women About Town'', a Literary Guild selection, was published by Viking Press in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |