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Books on: women in motion pictures

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Hollywood's America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures

Book by Stephen Powers, David J. Rothman, Stanley Rothman; Westview Press, 1996

Subjects:

Motion Pictures--Political Aspects--United States, Motion Pictures--Social Aspects--United States, Social Surveys--United States

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...They include Genders, Women Performance and Womens...filmography, Working Women on the Hollywood Screen...films of the period "a woman is not defined by her...1940s films in which women work successfully in...five minutes of the motion picture they give it...yield a very different picture of the American popular...representation of women in motion pictures and other media. For...
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How to Appreciate Motion Pictures: A Manual of Motion-Picture Criticism Prepared for High-School Students

Book by Edgar Dale; Macmillan, 1933

Subjects:

Drama, Drama--History And Criticism, Motion Picture Plays, Motion Pictures, Motion Pictures--Terminology, Sound Motion Pictures

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...notion as to what the motion picture might do. This quotation...really the purpose of the motion picture? You see now...who will make men and women believe and do this and...living open to men and women. 1 The motion picture...
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The American Movie Industry: The Business of Motion Pictures

Book by Gorham Anders Kindem; Southern Illinois University Press, 1982

Subjects:

Motion Picture Industry--United States--Case Studies

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...S. 676 1968 23. Women of the World Embassy...Londerholem v. Columbia Pictures Corp. , 197 Kan. 448...French Line RKO Radio Pictures v. Dept of Education...Garden of Eden Excelsior Pictures Corp. v. Chicago...Fanfare Films, Inc. v. Motion Picture Cen- Travel sor Board...
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Motion Pictures and Radio: Modern Techniques for Education

Book by Elizabeth Laine; McGraw-Hill, 1938

Subjects:

Motion Pictures In Education, Radio In Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...centers, 90 per cent read the picture sections regularly while only...and only 38 per cent of the women read the banner story on the...read by only 8 per cent of the women and only 15 per cent of the...more than 40 per cent of the women readers of one metropolitan newspaper: pictures, humor
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Moses and Egypt: The Documentation to the Motion Picture the Ten Commandments

Book by Henry S. Noerdlinger; University of Southern California Press, 1956

Subjects:

Egypt--Civilization, Moses--(Biblical Leader), Ten Commandments, The Ten Commandments (Motion Picture)

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...Jewish war prisoners. 183 The pictures of Semitic women studied by us show the hair...Hebrew hair fashions for the picture The Ten Commandments we discovered...custom adopted by married Jewish women which was of non-Jewish origin...that certain orthodox Jewish women performed upon marriage derived...

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Journal Articles on: women in motion pictures

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Tackling Universal Women as a Research Problem: What Historiographic Sources Do and Don't Tell Us about "gender" in the Silent Motion Picture Studio

Journal article by Mark Garrett Cooper; Framework, Vol. 51, 2010

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...in the Silent Motion Picture Studio by Mark...also employed women to direct, but...then demoted women required consideration...man" or "woman" at first seem...of the term "women." I am arguing...in the silent motion picture studio, we need...
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"Africa Joins the World": The Missionary Imagination and the Africa Motion Picture Project in Central Africa, 1937-9

Journal article by Glenn Reynolds; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010

Subjects:

African movies--History, African movies--Religious aspects, Central Africa--Social aspects, Missionaries--Finance, Missionaries--Social aspects, Motion pictures, African--History, Motion pictures, African--Religious aspects, Motion pictures--History, Motion pictures--Production and direction, Motion pictures--Religious aspects, Motion pictures--Social aspects, Movie production--History, Movie production--Religious aspects, Movie production--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...part in the Africa Motion Picture Project, of course...Social Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa, 1895...continued to promote motion pictures with religious themes...Possibilities of the Motion Picture (n.p., n.d...
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The Application of Staged Motion: a Historical Understanding of Cinema's Relation to Staged Pictures

Journal article by Joseph A. Sokalski; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 30, 2003

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Aesthetics, History, Motion picture industry, Movement, Projectors, Theater

Collections: History, Entire Library

...complex when different women pass across the...transformational staged motion suggested in reviews...subject of staged motion, as he uses theatre...most spectacular motions found in early narrative...attraction of the staged motion of pictures on the nineteenth...foreground eight young women lay or kneel across...
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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

Subjects:

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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...Fisherkeller, 1999). The Motion Picture Association of America...industry practices in the motion picture, music recording electronic...self-constructions of women. Womens Studies in...Theory, 3, 231-251. Motion Picture Association of America...
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The Appeal of Media Violence in a Full-Length Motion Picture: An Experimental Investigation

Journal article by Glenn G. Sparks, John Sherry, Graig Lubsen; Communication Reports, Vol. 18, 2005

Subjects:

Movie violence--Analysis, Movie violence--Psychological aspects, Violence in motion pictures--Analysis, Violence in motion pictures--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...a Full-Length Motion Picture: An Experimental...condition, but women found the film...feature-length motion picture. In addition to...in establishing motion pictures that are enjoyed...2001: Has the picture really changed...

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Magazine Articles on: women in motion pictures

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Lesbian Who Lunches: Who Knew Jada Pinkett Smith-With All Her Yoga, Child-Raising, Rock 'N' Rolling, and World-Changing-Would Have the Time to Put a Sapphic Twist on October's Remake of the 1939 Camp Classic the Women?

Magazine article by John Griffiths; The Advocate, September 9, 2008

Subjects:

Actors--Works, Actresses--Works, Lesbians--Portrayals, Pinkett Smith, Jada--Works, The Women (Motion picture)--Personalities

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...Seriously, when does this woman have time to break bread with her pal--and Wonder Woman inspiration--Oprah? Clearly...envision the 5-foot-tall woman hopping on a board too...point: her lively turn in The Women. In this tale of female bonding...the gold standard for womens pictures. Alas, 1939 wasnt a ripe...
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"Beneath the Feet of the Women"

Magazine article by Chris Kutschera; The Middle East, December 1997

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Algeria--Revolution, 1954-1962, Beneath the Feet of the Women (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Filmmakers--Works, Krim, Rachida--Works, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...her latest film. Beneath The Feet of Women poses a number of questions: how and why an ordinary, illiterate Algerian woman became so involved in a war - to the...During her stay in Algeria she met many women who told her their stories and she decided...getting out of jail, Aya was a different woman: she had experienced a revolution within...in our homeland they want to hide the women, they want to veil them, yet they are...
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They Sing, They Dance, They Kill: Catherine Deneuve and Seven Other Great French Actresses Try to Solve a Murder between Musical Numbers in Francois Ozon's Delicious 8 Women

Magazine article by David Ehrenstein; The Advocate, October 1, 2002

Subjects:

8 Women (Motion picture)

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...Agatha Christie had written The Women, and producer Ross Hunter hired...the simplest way to describe 8 Women--the latest and most purely...pure Hollywood fantasy. Few women ever manage to look as drop...as it is to recall plush A-picture romance in all its Hollywood...
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Art of Fugue: JAMES QUANDT ON LUCRECIA MARTEL'S THE HEADLESS WOMAN

Magazine article by James Quandt; Artforum International, Vol. 47, Summer 2009

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Filmmakers--Works, Mattel, Lucia--Works, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, The Headless Woman (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation

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...QUANDT ON LUCRECIA MARTELS THE HEADLESS WOMAN. by James Quandt ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS of the decade, Lucrecia Mattels The Headless Woman induces a mesmeric state akin to that of...with enigma so that its simple tale of a woman seized by the belief that she has committed...
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When Larry Met Lawrence: Larry Kramer Talks about Adapting D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love-And How the Infamous Musical Flop Lost Horizon Helped Create ACT UP

Magazine article by Alonso Duralde; The Advocate, May 27, 2003

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AIDS activists--Works, DVDs (Digital videodisks), Digital video disk, Filmmakers--Works, Kramer, Larry--Works, Lawrence, D.H.--Works, Movie directors--Works, Movie producers (Persons)--Works, Screenwriters--Works, Women in Love (Motion picture)

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...Talks about Adapting D.H. Lawrences Women in Love-And How the Infamous Musical...screen adaptation of D.H. Lawrences Women in Love (a film he produced as well as...accomplishments. With the recent DVD release of Women in Love (MGM Home Video) and the publication...

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Newspaper Articles on: women in 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

...Unbelievably, nothing has changed for Muslim women - the film tells the story of Naseema...of wanting to grow up as a normal young woman. I cried, because I could not see why...having forbidden it, because loose women painted their faces. I dressed modestly...reverted to the subdued, obedient young woman I was expected to be. My stepfather and...
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Ghetto Life and Women Bring Fresh Spirit of Adventure

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 6, 2006

Subjects:

Film festivals, Motion pictures, Movies, Women, Women in motion pictures

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

Ghetto Life and Women Bring Fresh Spirit of Adventure. Byline...her documentary Sisters In Law about two women working in the Cameroon judicial system...programme. Discovery of a generation of women speaking for the first time; from Mongolia...
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Eat Pray Love Is an Insult to Women with Real Problems

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 24, 2010

Subjects:

Eat Pray Love (Motion picture), Gilbert, Elizabeth, Roberts, Julia, Women

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

Eat Pray Love Is an Insult to Women with Real Problems. HILLARY CLINTON loved it. Elle Macpherson thinks that every woman should read it. Sophie Dahl wants to...darned thing. Yet more than nine million women have devoured Eat Pray Love, the international...behind her. In such circumstances, most women would count their blessings, keep calm...obsessed, professional, middle-class woman whose entire focus is always inwards...
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Mistresses, Money and a Violent Marriage; Wine and Women: Ryan O'Neal as Barry Lyndon, Based on the Life of Andrew Robinson Bowes

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 19, 2009

Subjects:

Barry Lyndon (Motion picture), Marriage, Wine, Women

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

...Money and a Violent Marriage; Wine and Women: Ryan ONeal as Barry Lyndon, Based on...went wrong. Under Georgian law a married woman had no rights and ceded her person, property...lingering admiration for his prey: a woman who would not capitulate, or die...largely indifferent to the mistreatment of women was appalled by the sustained assaults...
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Oh, the Women in His Life; Day-Lewis Has Fine Obsession in Musical 'Nine'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 25, 2009

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Women

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

Oh, the Women in His Life; Day-Lewis Has Fine Obsession...men would kill to have in their lives the women Guido Contini has in his. They range from...spirals out of his control, he finds these women more maddening than inspiring. Nine is...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women in motion pictures

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Muybridge, Eadweard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...which projected animated pictures on a screen, a forerunner of the motion picture. He wrote The Horse...portfolios: thousands of pictures of men, women, children, amputees...Who Invented the Moving Picture (1972); G. Hendricks...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ban pornography as injurious to women. Other activists, concerned...hate speech. The producers of motion pictures, dependent for success on widespread...system under the supervision of the Motion Picture Producers Association; the need...
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Biography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography an individuals interpretation...Longford , and Leon Edel . Biography in a Multimedia Age Motion pictures and television have adapted the form of biography to...

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