Women and film : both sides of the camera / E. Ann Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, E. Ann.

Series:

University paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Feminist films--History and criticism.

Feminist films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women & film

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, ""Women and Film"" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area.""--""The Arts""

Contents:

Cover; WOMEN AND FILM: Both sides of the camera; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema; 1 Is the gaze male?; 2 Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936); 3 Fetishism and the repression of Motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus {1932); 4 The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946); 5 Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977)

PART II The independent feminist film6 The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA; 7 Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972); 8 Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and ]uliane (The German Sisters) (1981); 9 The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers and Film about a Woman Who . . . (1972-4); 10 The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971-81)

11 The avant-garde theory film: three case studies from Britain and the USA: Sigmund Freud's Dora (1979), Thriller (1979), Mulvey/Wollen's Amy! (1980)12 Mothers and daughters in two recent women's films: Mulvey/Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1976) and Michelle Citron's Daughter-Rite (1978); 13 The woman director in the Third World: Sara Gomez's One Way or Another (1974); 14 The future of the independent feminist film: strategies of production, exhibition, and distribution in the USA; 15 Conclusion: Motherhood and patriarchal discourse; Notes; Filmographies and synopses; Appendix for teachers

BibliographyName index; Subject index

Notes:

"First published in 1983 by Methuen, Inc."

Includes bibliography: p. [242]-252 and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781134972401

1134972407

9781857270815

1857270819

9781134972418

1134972415

9781280328497

1280328495

9780203135310

0203135318

OCLC:

922956534