| Description |
285 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Five ages of film feminism / Patricia Mellencamp -- Between contemplation and distraction : cinema, obsession & involuntary memory / Jodi Brooks -- "I wanted to shoot people" : genre, gender and action in the films of Kathryn Bigelow / Needeya Islam -- "Fourth person singular" : becoming ordinary and the void in the critical body filmic / Melissa McMahon -- Film figures : Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The marriage of Maria Braun and Alexander Kluge's The female patriot / Michelle Langford -- Nicolas Roeg's Bad timing : fabulising the author among the ruins of romance / Toni Ross -- "Life is a dream" : Raul Ruiz was a surrealist in Sydney : a capillary memory of a cultural event / Laleen Jayamanne -- Meditation on violence / Lesley Stern |
| Summary |
Distributed for Power Publications, University of Sydney, collection of new essays |
| Analysis |
Feminism and motion pictures |
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Feminist film criticism |
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Women in motion pictures |
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ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN (NZ, Jane Campion, 1990) |
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BAD TIMING (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1980) |
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BEDEVIL (AT, Tracey Moffat, 1993) |
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BIGELOW, KATHRYN |
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BLUE STEEL (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1989) |
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EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979) |
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FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA |
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JAYAMANNE, LALEEN |
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MOFFATT, TRACEY |
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NEAR DARK (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) |
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NIGHT CRIES : A RURAL TRAGEDY (AT, Tracey Moffatt, 1990) |
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PATRIOTIN, DIE (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1979) |
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POINT BREAK (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) |
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RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) |
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RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948) |
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RUIZ, RAUL |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures.
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Feminist film criticism.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women in popular culture.
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Women in the motion picture industry.
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| Author |
Jayamanne, Laleen.
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| LC no. |
96123085 |
| ISBN |
0909952264 |
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9780909952266 |
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