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Women in Film

Books on: "women in film" OR (women AND film)

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Women and Film - Vol. 4

Book by Janet Todd; Holmes & Meier, 1988

Subjects:

Feminism And Motion Pictures, Motion Pictures And Women, Women In Motion Pictures, Women In The Motion Picture Industry

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...The Problem of Women in Film 1 Introduction...FEMINIST FILM THEORY The Problem of Women in Film 1 Introduction JAMES...Sochen, " Mildred Pierce and Women in Film," American Quarterly 30, 1...
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Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video

Book by Alexandra Juhasz; University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Subjects:

Feminist Motion Pictures, Women Motion Picture Producers And Directors--United States--Interviews

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...archives and historicizes early black film production, because too few women participated in the field. As she seeks...publications first emergec in the r97os: Women and Film was founded in 19 7 2, Jump Cut in r974...feminist or progressive work,33 most women who pro- duced film were either independently wealthy or...
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Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera

Book by E. Ann Kaplan; Methuen, 1983

Subjects:

Feminist Motion Pictures, Women In Motion Pictures, Women In The Motion Picture Industry

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...book arose out of the course on women in film that I have been teaching for...research and writing dissertations on women in film. Often very much influenced by...inspired to undertake courses on women in film, or to build the perspective into...
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Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing

Book by Isabel Cristina Pinedo; State University of New York Press, 1997

Subjects:

Horror Films--History And Criticism, Motion Picture Audiences, Motion Pictures And Women

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In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite ...
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In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
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Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film

Book by Maryel Locke, Charles Warren, Jean Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville; Southern Illinois University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Je Vous Salue, Marie (Motion Picture), Livre De Marie (Motion Picture), Mary--Blessed Virgin, Saint--In Motion Pictures

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...studies have to say about Hail Mary and The Book of Mary . Issues are raised about the nature of scandal, about women in film, about the nature of film itself, about the significance of the Virgin Mary in the modern world, and about the career...

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Journal Articles on: "women in film" OR (women AND film)

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Francophone Women Film Directors

Journal article by Jennifer L. Gauthier; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Francophone Women Film Directors (Book)--Book reviews

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Francophone Women Film Directors. by Jennifer L. Gauthier...Pallister and Ruth A. Hottell. Francophone Women Film Directors. Madison: Fairleigh-Dickinson...292 pp. $55.00 cloth. Francophone Women Film Directors is a follow-up volume to...
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Female Presence and Male Absence:recent Films by Greek Women

Journal article by Persephone Tselentis Apostolidis; Film Criticism, Vol. 27, 2002

Subjects:

Motion picture industry--Forecasts, Motion pictures--Analysis, Motion pictures--Forecasts

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...and male absence:recent films by greek women. by Persephone Tselentis Apostolidis In Greek Film, Aglaia Mitropoulou makes a claim that...approval from the predominantly male film industry. "For centuries," she writes, Greek women have, "without being conscious of it...unprotestingly sits through it all. The women in this film, Elias mother and grandmother, seem confined...
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Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture

Journal article by Anne Stancil; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 26, 2003

Subjects:

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (Book)--Reviews

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...the Wind, among others, illustrate that women fall victim to sexual assault due to...of a discussion of rape narratives in film studies. While this history supports...presentation of rape and violence against women as an avenue for feminism. Projansky concludes, quite accurately I think, that the film both tests and reinscribes the limits...postfeminism valuable to my own research on women in the media. At rimes, her numerous...insight to the discussion of postfeminist film and television. Anne Stancil Georgia...
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Picart, J. C. Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror

Journal article by John W. Howard Iii; Women and Language, Vol. 28, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror (Book)

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...J. C. Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror. by John...J. C. Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror. Albany, NY...Picarts Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film offers scholars of gender, culture, and...
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Women Screenwriters Today: Their Lives and Words

Journal article by Jean O'Reilly; Film Criticism, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women Screenwriters Today: Their Lives and Words (Book)--Book reviews

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...satisfying book. As a resource for the film scholar, Women Screenwriters Today is both tantalizing...reading when next I teach a course on women and film. It touches upon several issues that...delving deeply into) the problems facing women in the film and television industries today. This...

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Magazine Articles on: "women in film" OR (women AND film)

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Camera Angels: Film Is One of the Most Powerful Tools, or Weapons, We Have to Shape Views and Lives. as Long as Directors Are Mainly Men, This Will Be a Man's World. Rachel Millward Focuses on the Exceptional Women in a Dangerously Unbalanced Culture

Magazine article by Rachel Millward; New Statesman, Vol. 134, April 4, 2005

Subjects:

Feminism and motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Feminist motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Feminist movies--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures, Movies

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...showing in one week were directed by women. This statistic is certainly cause for concern. The film industry is not self-contained. What...patrons of Birds Eye View, a platform for women film-makers, whose first annual film festival...fifty-fifty (though TV fares better than film). Radclyffe understands from her own experience why women are more likely to take on roles in production...
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Why Are Black Actresses Having Such a Hard Time in Hollywood? Racism and the Film Industry's Limited Vision Contribute to the Scarcity of Roles for Black Women

Magazine article by Robin Givens; Ebony, Vol. 46, June 1991

Subjects:

African American actresses--Employment, Motion picture actors and actresses--Attitudes, Race discrimination--Personal narratives, Television actors and actresses--Attitudes

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...contribute to the scarcity of roles for Black women. by Robin Givens Racism and the film industrys limited vision contribute to...be so little camaraderie amongst Black women in Hollywood? "Yes," answers veteran television (Equal Justice) and film (Coming to America) actress Vanessa Bell...cast of top-notch actresses portray The Women of Brewster Place, a film in which Oprah Winfrey starred and served...
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The Power of Positive Women: Two out Talents-Filmmaker Jane Anderson and Memoirist Terry Ryan-Unite to Film the True Story of a '50S Mom Who Kept Her Family Fed by ... Writing Jingles?

Magazine article by Dave White; The Advocate, September 13, 2005

Subjects:

Anderson, Jane--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ryan, Terry--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical directors--Interviews, Theatrical producers and directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews

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The Power of Positive Women: Two out Talents-Filmmaker Jane Anderson and Memoirist Terry Ryan-Unite to Film the True Story of a 50S Mom Who Kept Her...souls too. Director Jane Anderson, whose film adaptation of Prize Winner (starring Julianne...to talk about the journey from book to film and the power of optimistic joy. Terry...
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At Five in the Afternoon: A New Film by Iranian Director Samira Makhmalbaf Looks at the Situation of Women in Post-Invasion Afghanistan

Magazine article by Beverly Andrews; The Middle East, January 2004

Subjects:

At Five in the Afternoon (Motion picture), Motion pictures--Movie reviews

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At Five in the Afternoon: A New Film by Iranian Director Samira Makhmalbaf Looks at the Situation of Women in Post-Invasion Afghanistan. by...what has become of the promises made to women in that war torn land? Has the war really...Iranian director Samira Makhmalbafs latest film At Five in the Afternoon looks at post...president. In one of the best scenes in the film, Afghan girls debate the possibility of women ruling their land. Many are sceptical...
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Primary Colors

Magazine article by Alice Lovejoy; Film Comment, Vol. 39, July 2003

Subjects:

Eat, Sleep, No Women (Nonfiction work), Film festivals--Analysis, Iran, Veiled Appearnces (Nonfiction work), Motion pictures--Fairs and festivals, Movies--Fairs and festivals, Power Trip (Nonfiction work), San Francisco International Film Festival--Analysis

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...Like Mobutu, King of Zaire, Michels 1999 film, Iran is a thorough, methodical inquiry...Afghanistan, Heiner Stadlers Eat, Sleep, No Women proved to he one of the festivals most...surprise that his beautifully photographed film is preoccupied with images and image-making...cinematic lineage that includes fellow German film-essayist Harun Farocki. The Castro...

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Newspaper Articles on: "women in film" OR (women AND film)

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Focus Was on Women in Film

Newspaper article by Gabriella Boston; The Washington Times, June 22, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Focus was on women in film by Gabriella Boston...professionals received awards from Women in Film and Video Wednesday night at the Ritz-Carlton...Institute . . . I am extremely proud of women in film," Mrs. Firstenberg said. Among award...
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At 13, My Stepfather Imprisoned Me in My Own Home. Nothing Has Changed for Muslim Girls; on Friday a New Film, Love + Hate, Is Released Which Is Set to Spark More Debate about How Islam Continues to Repress Young Women Today. Here One Writer Recalls Her Own Damaging Experience

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 2, 2006

Subjects:

Islam--Analysis, Motion pictures--Analysis, Motion pictures--Personal narratives, Movies--Analysis, Movies--Personal narratives, Muslims--Analysis, Women in motion pictures--Analysis, Women in motion pictures--Personal narratives, Women--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Changed for Muslim Girls; on Friday a New Film, Love + Hate, Is Released Which Is Set...How Islam Continues to Repress Young Women Today. Here One Writer Recalls Her Own...Unbelievably, nothing has changed for Muslim women - the film tells the story of Naseema, who, despite...demand, having forbidden it, because loose women painted their faces. I dressed modestly...life is out of place in Britain. The film Love + Hate is about the quest of young...
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Why DO Clever Women Fall for Second-Rate Men? Celluloid Cad: Chris Noth as Big with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the New Sex and the City Film

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 21, 2008

Subjects:

Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Why DO Clever Women Fall for Second-Rate Men? Celluloid Cad...Jessica Parker) in the New Sex and the City Film. Byline: Helen Kirwan-Taylor LOGIC...the man is likely to be.In fact, smart women seem to have a knack for attracting the...Stewart-Williams concluded that whenit comes to women with high IQs, a form of meanness is actually...
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WHO ARE YOU LOOKING AT? Body Envy: According to New Research, We Are Constantly Comparing Ourselves with Other Women, from Film Stars to the Girl at the Next Table. Jane Gordon Asks Why We Are So Obsessed with Measuring Our Looks against Every Other Female Who Comes into View

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 13, 2006

Subjects:

Body image--Measurement, Women--Measurement

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Constantly Comparing Ourselves with Other Women, from Film Stars to the Girl at the Next Table. Jane...female body image and the covert impulses women have to compete with each other. The woman...that made me question the way in which women endlessly compete over looks. What prompted...
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They Were Told They Could Have a Family AND a Career. So Why Are So Many Divorced Women Losing Custody of Their Children to Stay-at-Home Husbands? - They Were Told They Could Have a Family AND a Career. So Why Are So Many Divorced Women Losing Custody of Their Children to Stay-at-Home Husbands? Heartbreak: Dustin Hoffman as a Custody-War Father in the 1979 Film Kramer vs Kramer

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 10, 2008

Subjects:

Advertising agencies--Social aspects, Child custody--Social aspects, Custody of children--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Hoffman as a Custody-War Father in the 1979 Film Kramer vs Kramer. Byline: Sadie Nicholas LIKE millions of women of her gener-ation, Karen Martin dared to believethat women really could have it all. A high-flying...child support agency in Britain show that women areregistered as the non-resident parent...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "women in film" OR (women AND film)

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Campion, Jane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Australia (1979), Australian School of Film and Television, Sydney (1984). Campion...particularly adept at depicting the plight of women who live outside societys norms. She made...Frame . It was, however, her following film, The Piano (1993), that brought Campion...W. Wexman; study by I. Gatti (1998); film documentary by Albert Maysles (2001...
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Biography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BIOGRAPHY reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography an individuals interpretation...dramatic documentary ("docudrama") and the interview. Ken Russells film essays, commissioned by the British Broadcasting Company (1965...
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Taylor, Elizabeth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TAYLOR, ELIZABETH 1932 , Anglo-American film actress, b. London. Regarded as one of the worlds most beautiful women, Taylor went from child star to a series of ladylike roles to playing worldly, sometimes shrewish women. She won Academy Awards for her work in Butterfield 8 (1960...
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AlmodÓvar, Pedro

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ALMODOVAR, PEDRO pa thro almotho bar, 1951 , Spanish film director. Almodovar began to make films in the mid-1970s and...Habits (1983), Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie...typically center around strong, cunning, glamorous, and compelling women while often also featuring such characters as transsexuals...best director award and the Academy Award for best foreign film, two male-centered works, Talk to Her (2002) and the noir-inflected...
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Altman, Robert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves like Us (1974), and Three Women (1977). Altmans second major commercial success, Nashville...Come Back to the 5 Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play and film, 1982), Streamers (1983), and Fool for Love (1985). He...Joffrey Ballet ; and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his last film. In addition, he directed two mock political documentaries...

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