Women and Film; Both Sides of the Camera

Women and Film; Both Sides of the Camera

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"Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, Women and Film is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--The Arts

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From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Susan Eastman
Simply by making a movie, independent feminist filmmakers begin to claim the power to define and interpret the world for women. E. Ann Kaplan makes this basic concern of feminist theorists and filmmakers a critically important enterprise. Through her analysis of four films depicting different cinematic periods, Ann discusses how the male gaze in the camera eye, through its position of power, has defined, limited and viewed women wholly as erotic objects. She also describes women filmmakers' attempts to overturn the dichotomy of subject looking at the world as object by defining a path for women to speak on film as subjects. Ann suggests that the Mother, who has been mostly overlooked in male representations of women, is a good place for women interested in finding a voice outside patriarchal definitions to start. Lucid and provocative, this book will give filmmakers and viewers a world to think about, in the movies and in real life.

Women and Film; Both Sides of the Camera

Women and Film; Both Sides of the Camera,E. ANN KAPLAN,Routledge,0415027640,Cinema/Film: Book,Feminist motion pictures,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Gender Studies,History and criticism,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sociology Of Women,Special Subjects In Motion Pictures,Women in motion pictures,Women in the motion picture in,Women in the motion picture industry,Women's Studies - General

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