Women And Film

Foreword / Philip Dodd = vii Border crossings: women and film in context Pam Cook = ix Everything in question: women and film in prospect / Linda Ruth Williams = xxiv Icons The colour of virtue: Lillian Gish, whiteness and femininity / Richard Dyer = 1 Exorcised: Marlene Dietrich and German nationalism / Gertrud Koch = 10 From Dietrich to Madonna: cross-gender icons / Marjorie Garber = 16 Glamour and suffering: Gong Li and the history of Chinese stars / Berenice Reynaud = 21 Denying her place: Hattie McDaniel's surprising acts / Stephen Bourne = 30 Audrey Hepburn: fashion, film and the 50s / Elizabeth Wilson = 36 Catherine Deneuve and French womanhood / Ginette Vincendeau = 41 Never a victim: Jodie Foster, a new kind of female hero / B. Ruby Rich = 50 The outsider: Whoopi Goldberg and shopping mall America / Andrea Stuart = 62 A body of political work: Tilda Swinton in interview / Michael O'Pray = 68 Women against the grain High and low: the transformation of the rape-revenge movie / Carol J. Clover = 76 'Thelma & Louise' and the tradition of the male road movie / Manohla Dargis = 86 The 'Alien' trilogy: from feminism to Aids / Amy Taubin = 93 Working against the grain: women in animation / Irene Kotlarz = 101 Sisters under the skin: video and blockbuster erotic thrillers / Linda Ruth Williams = 105 Deconstructing masculinity The beast's beauty: Jean Gabin, masculinity, and the French hero / Ginette Vincendeau = 115 Grabbing the knife: 'The Silence of the Lambs' and the history of the serial killer movie / Amy Taubin = 123 'Cape Fear' and femininity as destructive power / Pam Cook = 132 'Falling Down' and the rise of the Average White Male / Carol J. Clover = 138 Men, women, children and the baby boom movies / Lizzie Francke = 148 Fathers and daughters in French cinema: from the 20s to 'La Belle Noiseuse' / Ginette Vincendeau = 156 Queer alternatives Homo pomo: the new queer cinema / B. Ruby Rich = 164 Queer questions: a response to B. Ruby Rich / Pratibha Parmar = 174 Queer male cinema and feminism / Amy Taubin = 176 Female misbehaviour: the cinema of Monika Treut / Julia Knight = 180 Women direct Leni Riefenstahl: the body beautiful, art cinema and fascist aesthetics / Thomas Elsaesser = 186 Chantal Akerman and feminist film-making / Angela McRobbie = 198 Monitoring conformity: the career of Doris Dorrie / Carole Angier = 204 Mira Nair: a new hybrid cinema / Andrea Stuart = 210 Against crawling realism: Sally Potter on 'Orlando' / Walter Donohue = 217 Julie Dash: 'Daughters of the Dust' and a black aesthetic / Karen Alexander = 224 Jane Campion: costume drama and reclaiming women's past / Stella Bruzzi = 232 Actors' filmographies = 243 Directors' filmographies = 251 Select bibliography = 254 Contributors' notes = 265 Index = 269

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