Women and film : a Sight and sound reader /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1993. |
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| Description: | xxix, 287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and the moving image |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1511682 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Philip Dodd
- Border crossings: women and film in context / Pam Cook
- Everything in question: women and film in prospect / Linda Ruth Williams
- The colour of virtue: Lillian Gish, whiteness and femininity / Richard Dyer
- Exorcised: Marlene Dietrich and German nationalism / Gertrud Koch
- From Dietrich to Madonna: cross-gender icons / Marjorie Garber
- Glamour and suffering: Gong Li and the history of Chinese stars / Berenice Reynaud
- Denying her place: Hattie McDaniel's surprising acts / Stephen Bourne
- Audrey Hepburn: fashion, film and the 50s / Elizabeth Wilson
- Catherine Deneuve and French womanhood / Ginette Vincendeau
- Never a victim: Jodie Foster, a new kind of female hero / B. Ruby Rich
- The outsider: Whoopi Goldberg and shopping mall America / Andrea Stuart
- A body of political work: Tilda Swinton in interview / Michael O'Pray
- High and low: the transformation of the rape-revenge movie / Carol J. Clover
- 'Thelma & Louise' and the tradition of the male road movie / Manohla Dargis
- The 'Alien' trilogy: from feminism to Aids / Amy Taubin
- Working against the grain: women in animation / Irene Kotlarz
- Sisters under the skin: video and blockbuster erotic thrillers / Linda Ruth Williams
- The beast's beauty: Jean Gabin, masculinity, and the French hero / Ginette Vincendeau
- Grabbing the knife: 'The Silence of the Lambs' and the history of the serial killer movie / Amy Taubin
- 'Cape Fear' and femininity as destructive power / Pam Cook
- 'Falling Down' and the rise of the Average White Male / Carol J. Clover
- Men, women, children and the baby boom movies / Lizzie Francke
- Fathers and daughters in French cinema: from the 20s to 'La Belle Noiseuse' / Ginette Vincendeau
- Homo pomo: the new queer cinema / B. Ruby Rich
- Queer questions: a response to B. Ruby Rich / Pratibha Parmar
- Queer male cinema and feminism / Amy Taubin
- Female misbehaviour: the cinema of Monika Treut / Julia Knight
- Leni Riefenstahl: the body beautiful, art cinema and fascist aesthetics / Thomas Elsaesser
- Chantal Akerman and feminist film-making / Angela McRobbie
- Monitoring conformity: the career of Doris Dorrie / Carole Angier
- Mira Nair: a new hybrid cinema / Andrea Stuart
- Against crawling realism: Sally Potter on 'Orlando' / Walter Donohue
- Julie Dash: 'Daughters of the Dust' and a black aesthetic / Karen Alexander
- Jane Campion: costume drama and reclaiming women's past / Stella Bruzzi.