Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (Culture and the Moving Image)
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Brought together for the first time, these lively, sophisticated essays bring into focus contemporary debates regarding the representation of women in film and analyze women's practices as filmmakers and actors. Sight and Sound, the pioneering magazine of film criticism, has enlisted a distinguished group of cultural commentators-critics, scholars, novelists-to consider the roles of gender and sexuality in classic and recent cinema.
Like Sight and Sound itself, the essays in this book are international in scope and represent the newest perspectives in cultural theory and criticism in a readily accessible style. Challenging dominant myths and the status quo in the industry, these provocative writers consider a wide range of fascinating topics that define the boundaries of traditional cinema and explore unmapped territory.
Essays are generously illustrated with stills of films discussed, and each section contains a comprehensive bibliography and filmography.
From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Amy Fletcher
Women and Film is a wonderful collection of essays taken from the British Film Institute's monthly magazine Sight and Sound. These essays show how gender and sexuality play a part in the cinema. For example, in an essay entitled "Icons," we are introduced to actresses ranging from Lillian Gish portraying the epitome of whiteness and femininity in Birth of a Nation, to Hattie McDaniel and her ability to subtlety put white people in their place. And today we have Jodie Foster and Whoopi Goldberg who brilliantly defy the film industry's concept of how women should act. Whether you are a classic movie-goer, box office watcher or enjoy more of an off-the-beaten-path movie, Women and Film will give you an insightful look into the gender politics behind filmmaking, and at the women actors and directors who make movies.
Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (Culture and the Moving Image)
Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (Culture and the Moving Image),Pam Cook,Philip Dodd,Temple University Press,1566391431,Cinema/Film: Book,Feminism and motion pictures,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Lesbianism in motion pictures,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sex role in motion pictures,Women in motion pictures,Women motion picture producers
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