WOMEN'S STUDIES / FILM
WOMEN & FILM
edited by Janet ToddThis fourth volume in the series examines the portrayal of women in film, as well as their involvement in the medium—as film-makers, screenwriters, actresses, critics, and characters. Distinguished North American and British scholars and film critics examine films such as Cukor's Women, Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, and Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer.
Also included are articles on Jane Fonda, Marguerite Duras, and Marilyn Monroe; on realist films and television drama; and on female audience and the feminist critic. The entire collection of essays is introduced by an insightful discussion of feminist film theory.
PART I
FEMINIST FILM THEORY
The Problem of Women in Film
1. Introduction: James Lynn
2. The Female Audience and the Feminist Critic: Judith Mayne
WOMEN AS IMAGE
3. The Men in The Women: Debra Fried
4. Monroe and Sexuality: Richard Dyer
5. Sunset Boulevard: Fading Stars: Lucy Fischer
6. The "Woman's Film" Genre and One Modern Transmutation: Kramer vs. Kramer: Anca Vlasopolos
7. Woman as Genre: Robert Phillip Kolker
WOMEN AS IMAGE MAKERS
8. Dietrich: Empress of Signs: Michael Wood
9. "Shadows of the Substance": Women and Screenwriters in the 1930s: Melissa Sue Kort
10. "The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks": Jane Fonda, Feminism, and Hollywood: Barbara Seidman
11. Marguerite Duras's Cinematic Spaces: Susan H. Léger
12. Discourses of Terrorism, Feminism, and the Family in von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane: E. Ann Kaplan
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