Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, B. Ruby, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and motion pictures.

Feminist films.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminist film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC, USA Duke University Press 19980901

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program “The World” have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems “cinefeminism.” In the hope that a new generation of feminist film culture might be revitalized by reclaiming its own history, Rich introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose. Travel, softball, sex, and voodoo all somehow fit into a book that includes classic Rich articles covering such topics as the antiporn movement, the films of Yvonne Rainer, a Julie Christie visit to Washington, and the historically evocative film Maedchen in Uniform. The result is a volume that traces the development not only of women’s involvement in cinema but of one of its key players as well.The first book-length work from Rich—whose stature and influence in the world of film criticism and theory continue to grow—Chick Flicks exposes unexplored routes and forgotten byways of a past that’s recent enough to be remembered and far away enough to be memorable.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: Jews without Books

Introduction

Prologue. I Found It at the Movies

1. Film in the Sixties

Prologue. Hippie Chick in the Art World

2. Carolee Schneemann's Fuses

Prologue. Angst and Joy on the Women's Film Festival Circuit

3. Leni Riefenstahl: The Deceptive Myth

Prologue. Life, Death, and Tragic Homecoming

4. Voodoo Verite: Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen

Prologue. An Iguana, Some Wolves, and the Dawn of Theory

5. In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism

Prologue. O Brave New World

6. One Way or Another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban Experience

Prologue. A Woman's Declaration of Secession from the Avant-Garde

7. Sex and Cinema

Prologue. Love's Labor Lost

8. Misconception: Laboring under No Illusions

Prologue. Cows and Hero-Worship

9. The Films of Yvonne Rainer

Prologue. Knokke-Heist and the Fury That Was Edinburgh

10. Designing Desire: Chantal Akerman

Prologue. Euphoria Reclaims History

11. From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Maedchen in Uniform

Prologue. Softball, the Goddess, and Lesbian Film Culture

12. The Right of Re-Vision: Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite (coauthored with Linda Williams)

Prologue. The Allure of Alchemy

13. Femicide Investigation: Thriller

Prologue. Sour Grapes

14. She Says, He Says: The Power of the Narrator in Modernist Film Politics

Prologue. Sex, Gender, and Consumer Culture

15. Antiporn: Soft Issue, Hard World (Not a Love Story)

Prologue. Unguided Tours

16. The Feminist Avant-Garde

Prologue. Attacking the Sisters, or the Limits of Disagreement

17. Cinefeminism and Its Discontents

Prologue. Libel Threats and Exile Tactics

18. Truth, Faith, and the Individual: Thoughts on U.S. Documentary Film Practice

Prologue. Disempowerment and the Politics of Rage

19. Lady Killers: A Question of Silence

Prologue. Film Star as Outstanding Human Being

20. Julie Christie Goes to Washington

Prologue. Blaming the Victim

21. Good Girls, Bad Girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk

Prologue. The Berks and the Sex Wars

22. Feminism and Sexuality in the Eighties

Epilogue: Charting the Eighties

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

0-8223-7758-6

OCLC:

746950518