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Teaching women and film / Sarah Gilligan.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.W6 G55 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilligan, Sarah.
- Series:
- Teaching film and media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Great Britain.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Women in the motion picture industry--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Great Britain.
- Women in the motion picture industry.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : BFI Education, 2003.
- Summary:
- This comprehensive and insightful guide introduces key approaches to teaching women and film with accessible reference to key contemporary critical and theoretical writing, together with in-depth case studies. In addition to providing frameworks and advice for teaching women and film as a specialist topic, the guide encourages the integration of women and film to the teaching of genre, representation and audiences. The guide takes an intertextual approach, drawing case studies from contemporary mainstream cinema, advertising, magazines and television.
- Contents:
- Assessment contexts 3
- Schemes of work 7
- 2 Background information 12
- Women and film timeline 12
- The industry 16
- Theoretical developments 20
- The rise of counter cinema 23
- Allowing pleasure 24
- Case study 1 Women working in the film industry 28
- Case study 2 Stars, representation and audience pleasures 43
- Case study 3 Genre, representation and media language 65.
- Notes:
- Includes filmography (pages 83-84) and bibliographical references (pages 85-88).
- ISBN:
- 085170980X
- 085170977X
- OCLC:
- 53912381
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