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A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films of the late twentieth century, Haskell analyzes images of women in movies, the relationship between these images and the status of women in society, the stars who fit these images or defied them, and...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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German
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The reel women collection features films about women and/or made by female directors. Strong female roles reflecting socialist gender ideals and policies abound, such as in the filmic foundation myth, Castles and cottages. In other films, such as A Berlin romance, women are portrayed as susceptible to the consumer attractions of the West, but also the site of conscience and moral action, as in The murderers are among us and Destinies of women. Later...
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From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates...
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Beacon Press
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"The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the Gods of Hollywood is a personal, collective, and metrics-driven dive into the near-absolute systemic exclusion of women from Hollywood, the experiences of women who are trying to break the system open, and the impact that their absence is having on our cultural psyche"--
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Opening at the number one spot in North American theaters in August 2000, Bring It On, the little cheerleading movie that could, went on to earn a worldwide gross of approximately $90 million, cementing the careers of Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Dushku--not to mention establishing a toothbrush as the sexiest household object, introducing instantly iconic quotes and cheers, and achieving "Oh, I love that movie!" status. The first-time...
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University of Illinois Press
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[2023]
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"From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell's A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the America of her times. Russell examines Stanwyck's work onscreen against the backdrop of costuming and other aspects of filmmaking. But she also views the actress's...
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STAR TV Filmed Entertainment
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c2005
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中文
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It recounts Ruan Lingyu's life both public and private in the years immediately leading up to her premature death. She had quite a number of famous performances for Shanghai's Lianhua studios, including New Woman (1934) and Goddess (1934). Unable to bear the gossip any longer, Ruan committed suicide at the age of twenty five.
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A comprehensive collection of photographs, interviews, and profiles of the most influential Black actresses, who have worked in film, television, and theater
From the author of Supreme Models comes the first-ever art book dedicated to celebrating Black actresses and exploring their experiences in acting. Through stunning photographs, personal interviews, short biographies, and career milestones, Supreme Actresses chronicles the most influential Black...
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Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent-a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic...
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"In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN explored hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Cinema is full...
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Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the "eating disordered culture" represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.
How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way real girls and women feel about their own size and shape? What effect can...
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Film reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking at the representation and impact of women on film. Malone weaves in interviews from a diverse group of well-known women working in cinema today. A follow-up to "Backwards and in Heels" and "The Female Gaze," this is the final book in Alicia's women in cinema trilogy.
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An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in-and were shaped by-the portrayal of women in Disney's animated features. In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their...
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All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective the top-grossing film melodramas of that decade, including A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden,...
17) Thelma & Louise
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MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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When unhappy housewife Thelma and her wise-cracking waitress friend Louise decide to take a break from their lives--Thelma from her chauvinistic husband and Louise from her commitment-shy musician boyfriend--they embark on a trip that leads to a tragic incident at a roadside honky tonk. In an instant, their weekend getaway becomes a flight from the law across the American southwest.
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"In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of...
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Zibby Books
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What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That's what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry. One minute she was a tourist, begging her way into the audience of Late Night with David Letterman. Just a few years later, she was an insider who-through relentless hard work and sacrifice-had earned a seat in the writers' rooms of the hottest TV shows of all time. While...
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It recounts Ruan Lingyu's life both public and private in the years immediately leading up to her premature death. She had quite a number of famous performances for Shanghai's Lianhua studios, including New Woman (1934) and Goddess (1934). Unable to bear the gossip any longer, Ruan committed suicide at the age of twenty five.
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