Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2010]

©2010

xii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

text

unmediated

volume

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gazing outward: the spectrum of feminist reception history. Unmasking the gaze : feminist film theory, history, and film studies / Laura Mulvey -- Les belles dames sans merci, femmes fatales, vampires, vamps, and gold diggers : the transformation and narrative value of aggressive fallen women / Janet Staiger -- "I wanted life to be romantic, and I wanted to be thin" : girls growing up with cinema in the 1930s / Annette Kuhn -- The "true love" of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton / Suzanne Leonard -- "She will never look" : film spectatorship, Black feminism, and scary subjectivities / Terri Simone Francis -- Rewriting authorship. Lois Weber, star maker / Shelley Stamp -- Reading as a woman : the collaboration of Ayako Wakao and Yasuzo Masumura / Ayako Saito -- Women in the nouvelle vague : the lost continent? / Geneviève Sellier -- Investigating an interval : Sarah Bernhardt, Hamlet, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Victoria Duckett -- Vision and visibility : women filmmakers, contemporary authorship, and feminist film studies / Yvonne Tasker -- Black and white : Mercedes de Acosta's glorious enthusiasms / Patricia White -- Excavating early cinema. Vitagraph stardom : constructing personalities for "new" middle-class consumption / Sumiko Higashi -- Clara, Ouida, Beulah, et. al. : women screenwriters in American silent cinema / Giuliana Muscio -- Making more than a spectacle of themselves : creating the militant suffragette in Votes for women / Amy Shore -- Visualizing the modern Mexican woman : Santa and cinematic nation-building / Joanne Hershfield -- Sisters in rebellion : the unexpected kinship of Germaine Dulac and Virginia Woolf / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- Constructing a (post)feminist future. "Misty water-colored memories of the way we were- " : postfeminist nostalgia in contemporary romance narratives / Michele Schreiber -- On cyberfeminism and cyberwomanism : high-tech mediations of feminism's discontents / Anna Everett -- The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era : Yeoseongjang and "trans-cinema" / Soyoung Kim -- The future of the archive : an interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson / Vicki Callahan.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Feminist film criticism.

Callahan, Vicki, editor.

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