Collection of essays focusing on women and feminism in cinema, edited by Laleen Jayamanne. The films of directors including Akerman, Bigelow, Bresson, Campion, Dash, Kluge, Moffatt, Powell, Rainer, Roeg, Ruiz and Scorsese are considered. Contents: 'Five Ages of Film Feminism' by Patricia Mellencamp; 'Between Contemplation and Distraction: Cinema, Obsession and Involuntary Memory' by Jodi Brooks; '"I Wanted to Shoot People" - Genre, Gender and Action in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow' by Needeya Islam; '"Fourth Person Singular" - Becoming Ordinary and the Void in the Critical Body Filmic' by Melissa McMahon; 'Film Figures: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and Alexander Kluge's "The Female Patriot"' by Michelle Langford; 'Nicolas Roeg's "Bad Timing": Fabulising the Author Among the Ruins of Romance' by Toni Ross; '"Life is a Dream" - Raul Ruiz was a Surrealist in Sydney: A Capillary Memory of a Cultural Event' by Laleen Jayamanne; 'Meditation on Violence' by Lesley Stern.
| Item number | 40986 |
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| Category | Book |
| Type | Gender & Film |
| Language | English |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Related people | Laleen Jayamanne (Editor) |