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Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain. It was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name in 1945, starring Joan Crawford, and a 2011 Emmy Award–winning miniseries of the same name, starring Kate Winslet.
Plot.
Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of a middle-class housewife, Mildred Pierce, and her attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.
Mildred separates
as "Mildred Pierce" (1945). The film noir narrative is set up to combat a melodramatic aesthetic - the “women’s perspective” of film, as opposed to the typical gaze that is fixated on male desire. Since Mildred Pierce denies the convention of the male narrative and alters the reception of her desired point of view of the story, the home is left to unravel and reveal its state of disarray as a consequence of her absence. While there is an attempt to balance the role of the loving and