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Cinema and the second sex : women's filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s / Carrie Tarr with Brigitte Rollet.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.F7 T27 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarr, Carrie.
- Series:
- Women make cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--France--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Women motion picture producers and directors--France--Biography.
- Women motion picture producers and directors.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Summary:
- Women's film-making in France is a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive--during the period in question, over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France. On the other hand, despite the heritage of French feminism, French women directors characteristically disclaim their gender as a sigificant factor in their filmaking.This incisive study provides an informative, critical guide to this major body of work, exploring the boundaries between personal films (intimate psychological dramas relating to key stages in life) and genre films (which demonstrate women's ability to appropriate and rework popular genres). It analyzes the effects of "postfeminism," women's desire to enter the mainstream, and the recent impact of a new generation of filmakers. It thus enables readers for the first time to take stock of the wealth and diversity of women's contribution to French cinema during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Personal Films
- Chapter 1 Growing Up 25
- Chapter 2 The Age of Possibilities 54
- Chapter 3 Couples 82
- Chapter 4 Families 111
- Chapter 5 Work, Art and Citizenship 133
- Part 2 Genre Films
- Chapter 6 Comedies 165
- Chapter 7 Crime Dramas 196
- Chapter 8 Road Movies 228
- Chapter 9 Historical Films 251
- Filmography: Films Directed by Women 1980-1999 285
- Supplementary Filmography: Films Directed by Women 2000 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 285-296.
- ISBN:
- 0826447414
- 0826447422
- OCLC:
- 46314659
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