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Books on: women AND (film OR "motion pictures")

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The People's Films: A Political History of U.S. Government Motion Pictures

Book by Richard Dyer MacCann; Hastings House, 1973

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Documentary Films--United States--History And Criticism, Motion Pictures In Propaganda--United States, Motion Pictures--Political Aspects

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...chief of the Bureau of Motion Pictures, to serve without...Nontheatrical Distribution Films had been released in...Division of the Bureau of Motion Pictures was Paul C. Reed...distributors of OWI films. In the first issue...a local educational film dealer: It is not...555 American men, women and children." Among...
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Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures

Book by Vincent LoBrutto; Praeger, 2005

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Cinematography, Motion Pictures

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...probes the very essence of how a film director feels, sees, and...film director who infused his films with a devilishly satiric crit...point of distraction with the women in his life. Claudia (Claudia...Saraghina (Edra Gale), an earthy woman who entertained his pals when...to be free. Guido wants the women in his life all to be actresses...itself in Guidos attitude toward women when at one point he is actually...
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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

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

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...Cristina, 1957- Recreational terror : women and the pleasures of horror film viewing/Isabel Cristina Pinedo. p...pbk. : acid-free paper 1. Horror films -- History and criticism. 2. Motion picture audiences. 3. Motion pictures and women. I. Title. II. Series. PN1995...
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History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny

Book by Susan E. Linville; University of Texas Press, 2004

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Historical Films--United States--History And Criticism, Psychoanalysis And Motion Pictures, Sex Role In Motion Pictures, Women In Motion Pictures

Collections: Psychology, History, Entire Library

...Susan Elizabeth), 1949- History films, women, and Freuds uncanny / Susan E...8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women in motion pictures. 2. Sex role in motion pictures. 3. Historical films-United States-History and criticism...
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Women and Film - Vol. 4

Book by Janet Todd; Holmes & Meier, 1988

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

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...stirring moment in the feature films that might have accompanied...1943 , for instance, several women who work at the same war plant...with their loved ones. The film traces the socialization of these women to the demands of war, and...or in the movie theater, women can only respond when personal...the analysis and critique of motion pictures, the appeal of the cinema...

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Journal Articles on: women AND (film OR "motion pictures")

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Girls on Film: An Examination of Gendered Vocational Socialization Messages Found in Motion Pictures Targeting Teenage Girls

Journal article by Annika Hylmo; Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 70, 2006

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Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Sex role in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Sex role--Portrayals, Sex roles--Portrayals, Teenage girls--Portrayals

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Girls on Film: An Examination of Gendered...Socialization Messages Found in Motion Pictures Targeting Teenage Girls...television, music, and films, is one particularly important...opportunities through the medium of film. It begins with an overview...to becoming professional women, such as historians or...it is quite possible that films similarly do present alternative...girls through the medium of film? Method Gabriel (1998...performed stories found in motion pictures targeting girls. With one...
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The Education of Women in Film Production

Journal article by Anne Orwin, Adrianne Carageorge; Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 53, 2001

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College students, Higher education, Learning, Motion pictures, Women

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and constant action, womens films are often seen as incomplete...effects of action adventure films. There is another more subtle...gender bias that occurs in film production classes even when...there is a preponderance of films by men, therefore films shown...as "feminist" if she was a woman, and "rigid" if he was a...following suggestions came from the women, the authors have added their...
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Professional Women-women in the Professionals (1966)

Journal article by Winona Howe; Film & History, Vol. 33, 2003

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Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Women

Collections: History, Entire Library

...from any number of Western films that we all recognize, a scene...in which he exists. Western women, however, are a different story. Jenni Calder describes the women who went west as "wives...respectable job that could take a woman West was schoolteaching...predominantly marginalized women from the outset" (4). It...a much more light-hearted film, but its women serve mostly...
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Warriors and Women in Sanjuro and Nichinichi Heian

Journal article by J. Cohn; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 26, 1998

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Kurosawa, Akira, Literary criticism, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Short stories, Shugoro, Yamamoto, Women

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...often drawn, many samurai films are simply entertainments shaped...worlds where there is little for women to do except provide decorative...clear focus by comparing the film with the work that provided...finally orders lori to move the women to a safer hideout, still...emergencies, as if to signal that women are of no account in the warriors...although her status as a woman would seem to make her insignificant...
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The Special Problems of Women and Members of Minority Groups

Journal article by Peter Bukalski; Journal of Film and Video, 2000

Subjects:

Educators, Gays & lesbians, Higher education, Minority & ethnic groups, Motion pictures, Video, Women

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...managed. In some units, all women professors are thought to be...reported that more than half the women faculty in film/video have been the victims...members. For example, one woman is reported to have been denied...without actual harassment, many women find tenure a difficult process...

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Magazine Articles on: women AND (film OR "motion pictures")

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Women Make Movies: Progressively Multicultural Films by and about Women

Magazine article by Paul Gorski, Caitlin Habib, Heather W. Hackman, Sivagami Subbaraman; Multicultural Education, Vol. 11, Spring 2004

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Documentary films, Fire Department-San Francisco CA, Firefighters, Freedoms, Interviews, Jordan, Stephanie, Karachi Pakistan, Longinotto, Kim, Motion pictures, Responsibilities, Sergel, Ruth, Sumar, Sahiha, Women

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Progressively Multicultural Films by and about Women by Paul Gorski , Caitlin Habib...Hackman , Sivagami Subbaraman Women Make Movies: Progressively Multicultural Films by and about Women Even among its many progressive...non-profit, independent film production and distribution...
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D Is for Dilemma: Studio D Founder Kathleen Shannon Looks Back on Lessons She Learned Starting Up the All-woman Film Studio

Magazine article; Herizons, Vol. 9, Summer 1995

Subjects:

Entertainment, Industry, Motion picture industry, Motion pictures, National Film Board, Shannon, Kathleen, Women

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...Learned Starting Up the All-woman Film Studio "D" is for Dilemma...learned starting up the all-woman film studio. Q:If someone created an all-woman film studio and put you in...most b) Make the glossiest films possible to demonstrate women could do it as well as men...
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Fading Fast: Where Are the Older Women in TV and Film?

Magazine article by Amanda Goldrick-Jones; Herizons, Vol. 9, Summer 1995

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Age and employment, Culture, Entertainment, Industry, Mass media, Minority & ethnic groups, Motion picture industry, Motion pictures, Women

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...As feminist film theorist Karen...especially the older woman, is often treated...the Journal of Women and Aging focusing...portrayed in films. Among other...produce four films for every one...If TV and film executives employed...the Canadian film Company of Strangers...middle-aged women up close...Glamour, Working Woman, and Premiere...portrayals of women in Hollywood...for women" in films, but nonetheless...
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Films & Videos

Magazine article; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall/Winter 2004

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Globalization, Motion pictures, Social activism, Video recordings, Women

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Films Videos ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE...Young, 2002, 24 min. This film captures the energy of the...explores the diverse ways in which women express themselves at anti...Newfoundland, 2000, 56 min. Women from 18 countries discuss their...political conditions that push women into such roles as well as...EXTRAVIADA (MISSING YOUNG WOMAN) Lourdes Portillo, 2001...
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Rating the Role Models: Women with Disabilities in Film and TV

Magazine article by Susan Hirshorn; Herizons, Vol. 12, Fall 1998

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Handicapped people, Motion pictures, Social aspects, Social conditions, Television broadcasting, Women

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...articles, books and films that treat issues of...and non-commercial film (e.g. the book Our...some not -- to free women with disabilities from...powerful, professional women were often portrayed...life of her own. The film also explores undercurrents...talking. In spite of the films shortcomings, Matlins...condemns overt anger in women and Sarah defies this...

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Newspaper Articles on: women AND (film OR "motion pictures")

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Muslim Girls; on Friday a New Film, Love + Hate, Is Released...Islam Continues to Repress Young Women Today. Here One Writer Recalls...nothing has changed for Muslim women - the film tells the story of...to grow up as a normal young woman. I cried, because I could...forbidden it, because loose women painted their faces. I dressed...
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FROM SE3 TO USA; Hollywood Now Beckons for Blackheath-Raised Actress Sally Hawkins -- Thanks to a New Film about Women Car Workers on Strike. Liz Hoggard Meets Her

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 29, 2010

Subjects:

Hawkins, Sally, Leigh, Mike, Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion pictures, Movie actors, Movies, Strikes, Working women

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

...Hawkins -- Thanks to a New Film about Women Car Workers on Strike...works. "It was a very woman-led production with...Oscartipped. A shy, dyslexic woman from Blackheath, she...creative director of BBC Films and Made in Dagenhams...Page 27 of the ordinary woman in a really compelling...says. In 1968, 187 women machine workers walked...
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I Was a Teen Mum Now I'm Training to Be a ... Barrister; Real Lives the New Oscar-Nominated Film Juno Features a Teenager Facing Up to an Unplanned Pregnancy. Susan Lee Found out from One Woman What It's REALLY Like

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), February 6, 2008

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Motion pictures--Personal narratives, Motion pictures--Training, Movies--Personal narratives, Movies--Training, Pregnant women--Personal narratives, Pregnant women--Training

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

...Training to Be a ... Barrister; Real Lives the New Oscar-Nominated Film Juno Features a Teenager Facing Up to an Unplanned Pregnancy. Susan Lee Found out from One Woman What Its REALLY Like. Byline: Susan Lee WHEN Melissa Burns found her...
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Forget Girls on Film, These Are Women; Anne Gildea A WICKEDLY FUNNY TAKE ON MODERN IRELAND

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 27, 2010

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Motion pictures, Movies

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

Forget Girls on Film, These Are Women; Anne Gildea A WICKEDLY FUNNY...media, a vortex of man vs woman argument. And what is it...mindless violence that so many films pitched at men promulgate...elastic turban favoured by women undergoing chemotherapy. One...flimsy gripes: Carrie, the woman with more than it all, bemoaning...
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THE MINUTE YOUR HUSBAND IS TAKEN AWAY, YOU BECOME A ZERO'; When a Hindu Woman Is Widowed, She Faces Rejection by Society and Is Often Cast out by Her Family. Thousands Seek Sanctuary in the Holy City of Vrindavan, Where They Live in Poverty Waiting for Death. Now an Oscar-Nominated Controversial Film, Banned in India, Exposes Their Plight

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 25, 2007

Subjects:

Motion pictures, Movies

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

...A ZERO; When a Hindu Woman Is Widowed, She Faces...Nominated Controversial Film, Banned in India, Exposes...childhood and life. The films romanticised styling...property is inherited by the woman. So the sons are envious...but without a man, women have no social status...at the Balaji ashram, women queue up behind a barred...for food. Next to the woman doling out dal are a...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women AND (film OR "motion pictures")

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Biography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...BIOGRAPHY reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography an individuals...Edel . Biography in a Multimedia Age Motion pictures and television have adapted the form...or Spencer Tracy as Thomas Edison, films retraced for new audiences, although...and the interview. Ken Russells film essays, commissioned by the British...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...some feminists attempted to ban pornography as injurious to women. Other activists, concerned with racism and other forms...suppression of what came to be called hate speech. The producers of motion pictures, dependent for success on widespread public approval, somewhat...
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Sembene, Ousmane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Senegalese author and film director who wrote and made films in French and Wolof...prize at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. Beginning...Sembene produced films in the Wolof language...profound concern for African women. See F. Pfaff, The...Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene...Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (2001...
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Campion, Jane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...CAMPION, JANE 1954 , New Zealand film director, b. Wellington...1979), Australian School of Film and Television, Sydney (1984...directed most of her early films, is particularly adept at depicting the plight of women who live outside societys norms...screenplay Academy Award. Her later films include Portrait of a Lady...study by I. Gatti (1998); film documentary by Albert Maysles...
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Altman, Robert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1925 2006, American film director, b. Kansas...industrial and sports films (1946 56), and worked...several forgettable feature films, Altman his first success...numerous idiosyncratic films, including Brewster...1974), and Three Women (1977). Altmans second...Jimmy Dean (play and film, 1982), Streamers...

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