Chick flicks : theories and memories of the feminist film movement / B. Ruby Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, B. Ruby.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and motion pictures.

Feminist films--History and criticism.

Feminist films.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminist film criticism.

Physical Description:

xix, 419 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [1998]

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:

Film in the sixties

Carolee Schneemann's Fuses

Leni Riefenstahl : the deceptive myth

Voodoo verité : Maya Deren's Divine horsemen

In the name of feminist film criticism

One way or another : Sara Gomez and the Cuban experience

Sex and cinema

Misconception : laboring under no illusions

The films of Yvonne Rainer

Designing desire : Chantal Akerman

From repressive tolerance to erotic liberation : Maedchen in uniform

The right of re-vision : Michelle Citron's Daughter rite / coauthored with Linda Williams

Femicide investigation : Thriller

She says, he says : the power of the narrator in modernist film politics

Antiporn : soft issue, hard world (Not a love story)

The feminist avant-garde

Cinefeminism and its discontents

Truth, faith, and the individual : thoughts on U.S. documentary film practice

Lady killers : A question of silence

Julie Christie goes to Washington

Good girls, bad girls : Joyce Chopra's Smooth talk

Feminism and sexuality in the eighties.

Notes:

A collection of the author's essays from the 1970s and 1980s.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-408) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-7758-6

0-8223-2106-8

OCLC:

1226679961

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08224 hdl