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Feminism and Film » Read Now
by Maggie Humm. 246 pgs.

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The first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb, Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. She draws on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell...
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The first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb, Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. She draws on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks to examine films such as Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust.
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Women and Film, Vol. 4 » Read Now
by Janet Todd. 281 pgs.

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...Mulveys now-classic essay on feminist film criticism, "Visual Pleasure and the...narrower, prewar sense. Modern feminist film criticism changes our way of looking...An...
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The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema » Read Now
by Judith Mayne. 260 pgs.

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...desire. While feminist film theory and criticism are obviously...has been, in feminist film theory and criticism, both extremely...repressed of classical film narrative...
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Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood » Read Now
by Philip Green. 262 pgs.

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...pictures. 4. Feminist film criticism. I. Title...Teaching of Film, and by many...friendly criticism. About all...responded to the feminist revolution...structured by the...
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All That Hollywood Allows: Re-Reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama » Read Now
by Jackie Byars. 326 pgs.

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...Melodrama in motion pictures. 4. Feminist film criticism. 5. Motion pictures--Social...the assumption common in feminist film criticism today: all that is...
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Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood Movies » Read Now
by Elizabeth G. Traube. 212 pgs.

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...the course of the 1970s, feminist film criticism swung sharply toward the...Lacanian paradigm that ruled feminist film criticism for a decade. In the version...she defined...
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Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna » Read Now
by Pamela Robertson. 199 pgs.

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...spectator has been central to feminist film theory since the 1970 s. 37...famous "Visual Pleasure" essay. Feminist film theorists have grappled with...spectacle in film...
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Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen » Read Now
by Susan Martin-Marquez. 322 pgs.

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Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema provides the first detailed consideration of women directors working before the Civil War and during Franco's dictatorship, and is the first to explore the impact of feminism on filmmaking in Spain. Part I focuses on three directors, Rosario Pi, Ana Mariscal...
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Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema provides the first detailed consideration of women directors working before the Civil War and during Franco's dictatorship, and is the first to explore the impact of feminism on filmmaking in Spain. Part I focuses on three directors, Rosario Pi, Ana Mariscal, and Pilar Miro, whose careers span the history of sound cinema in Spain. The book highlights their struggle to achieve agency within the male-dominated film industry and draws on extensive archival research as well as in-depth textual analysis to reveal their negotiation with questions of authorship, female subjectivity and national cinema. Part II explores six films by women and men directors--three each from the Francoist and post-Franco periods--that foreground a number of issues of fundamental importance to feminism, from the indoctrination and "performance" of gender, to the fraught effort to reconcile power with sexual pleasure. The Afterword treats the remarkable recent boom in women directors and traces the shift in their work towards the exploration of multiple forms of difference.
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Women and the New German Cinema » Read Now
by Julia Knight. 222 pgs.

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...SPECTATORS Looking at Film and Televison...Radway GRAFTS Feminist Cultural Criticism edited by...to a whole feminist film culture and...extracts from the feminist film...
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Filming Women in the Third Reich » Read Now
by Jo Fox. 268 pgs.

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In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an historical evaluation of the role and image of women in the feature films of the Third Reich. The author...
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In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an historical evaluation of the role and image of women in the feature films of the Third Reich. The author challenges current perceptions of the National Socialist position with regards to women and examines the creation of a female film culture, as well as the 'blurring' of gender distinctions as a result of the war.Goebbels and his wife personally selected young movie actresses at their home to portray mothers, vamps, girls-next-door and exotic love interests. His interest in film opens up an array of important issues central to this book: Were women compliant with Nazism or were they the victims of a regime imposing policies ultimately detrimental to their condition? Is it true that the war helped to emancipate women who were not only romantic and patriotic heroines on screen but employed as drivers, technicians and even managers of government affiliated film departments? Did all films produced under the auspices of the Third Reich serve as propaganda and if so, how successful were they? And finally, what can the study of cinema contribute to the historical debate surrounding National Socialism?This book fills a considerable gap in the research of the Nazi star system and makes a crucial contribution not only to cinema history, but also to our view of the perceived role of women in the Third Reich.'This book will change the way that we look at Nazi Germany.'Richard Taylor, University of Swansea
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Feminism, Film, Fascism: Women's Auto/Biographical Film in Postwar Germany » Read Now
by Susan E. Linville. 196 pgs.

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German society' inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn . In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by...
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German society' inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn . In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by focusing on a cultural realm in which mourning for the Nazi past and opposing the patriarchal and authoritarian nature of postwar German culture are central concerns—namely, women' feminist auto/biographical films of the 1970s and 1980s. After a broad survey of feminist theory, Linville analyzes five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages—Marianne Rosenbaum' Peppermint Peace , Helma Sanders-Brahms' Germany, Pale Mother , Jutta Bruuml;ckner' Hunger Years , Margarethe von Trotta' Marianne and Juliane , and Jeanine Meerapfel' Malou . By juxtaposing these films with the accepted theories on German culture, Linville offers a fresh appraisal not only of the films' importance but especially of their challenge to misogynist interpretations of the German failure to grieve for the horrors of its Nazi past.
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Framing the Feminine: Diasporic Readings of Gender in Popular Indian Cinema, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by Anjali Ram. 28 pgs.

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...Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 11(3...Defining genealogies: Feminist reflections on being...exile, homeland: Film, media, and the politics...Phenomenology as feminist...
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Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein, in Feminist Studies » Read Now
by Elizabeth Young. 35 pgs.

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...directions in feminist film theory. Recent feminist criticism of the horror film...Frankenstein leave feminist film theory? That film criticisms reliance upon...
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Travels with Sally Potter's Orlando: Gender, Narrative, Movement, in Screen » Read Now
by Julianne Pidduck. 18 pgs.

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...part of the project of feminist film criticism and filmmaking has been the...impetus of Orlandos utopian feminist journey...Television. Essays in Cultural Criticism...
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Feminist Visions of Transformation in The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano, and Orlando, in Women and Language » Read Now
by David Natharius, Bethami A. Dobkin. 9 pgs.

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...7) Less often, feminist criticism explores how womens...particularly in film, where portrayals...Films," Issues in Feminist Film criticism, ed Patricia Ehrens...Women,"...
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Duel or Duet? Gendered Nationalism in The Piano, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by Davinia Thornley. 16 pgs.

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...regarding colonial and feminist themes in the film. As I will detail, I refute...policy. This in turn limits feminist interpretations of the film in articles and...