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The Fallen Woman As Victim in Early American Film: Soma Versus Psyche
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Center for the Study of Film and History
- Volume 17, Number 3, September 1987
- pp. 50-61
- 10.1353/flm.1987.a402690
- Article
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The first three decades of the twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the portrayal of the victimization of the fallen woman on the silver screen. Leslie Fishbein explains how and why.