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Author Kaplan, E. Ann.

Title Women and film : both sides of the camera / E. Ann Kaplan
Published New York : Methuen, 1983

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Description xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series UP ; 816
University paperbacks ; 816
Contents pt. 1. The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema Is the gaze male? -- Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936) -- Fetishism and the repression of motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932) -- The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946) -- Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- pt. 2. The independent feminist film The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA -- Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972) -- Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane (The German sisters) (1981) -- The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of performers and Film about a woman who... (1972-4) -- The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971-81) -- 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) -- Mothers and daughters in two recent women's films: Mulvey/Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1976) and Michelle Citron's Daughter-rite (1978) -- The woman director in the Third World: Sara Gomez's One way or another (1974) -- The future of the independent feminist film: strategies, production, exhibition, and distribution in the USA -- Conclusion Motherhood and patriarchal discourse
Analysis American cinema films, 1932-1977. Characters: Women - Feminist viewpoints
Cinema films Feminist directors, 1971-1981 - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-252) and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Feminist films -- History and criticism.
Feminist films -- History.
Motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Feminist films.
Women in the motion picture industry.
LC no. 83008198
ISBN 0416317502 (paperback)
Other Titles Women & film