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An introduction to the discipline. Covers classical narrative structure, a feminist counter-cinema, feminine look and subjectivity, and raises issues relating to gay and lesbian cinema, race, masculinity, and queer theory. Includes bibliography.
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Smelik Feminist Film Theory Feminism is a social movement which has had an enormous impact on film theory and criticism. Cinema is taken by feminists to be a cultural practice representing myths about women and femininity, as well as about men and masculinity. Issues...Selection of full-text feminist film reviews. Part of the Women's Studies Database at the University of Maryland.
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A University of Maryland, Women's Studies Database University of Maryland This page is maintained by MITH Staff. Questions, comments, and/or suggestions should be directed to ws-editor@umail.umd.edu. Last modified Thursday, June 13, 2002 © University of Maryland...Book seeking to address the strategies used by women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora in attempts to decolonize the gaze and locate subjectivity. Includes coverage of many individual filmmakers.
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Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora My main aim throughout this book is to locate the strategies that women filmmakers of the diaspora are using to decolonize the gaze and to ground their films in Black female subjectivity. After a brief introductory essay in Chapter One,...Online article that critically examines both the roles women have traditionally played in cinema and the mainstream cinema's effect on womenhood.
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WOMEN IN FILM: IN SEARCH OF TRUE LIBERATION FOR WOMEN It can be said with no exaggeration that without women there would be no cinema. Sadly, this is so not because the natural concerns of genuine womanhood have been addressed in film, but because from the very beginnings of cinema...A call for papers for a special issue of the Signs journal (Beyond the Gaze: Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms).
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/call.html
Description of a book that offers a comprehensive survey of the work done in the discipline over the last two decades.
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Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism Collecting some of the most important writing in feminist film criticism and theory past and present, this volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past...Feminist perspectives on film, television and visual media. Includes full text of the journal, general and submission information.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/co/
Collaborative effort to advance research on the accomplishments and history of women filmmakers from the early years of cinema through to the coming of sound.
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Welcome to Duke University's Women Film Pioneers Sponsored by the Program in Film-Video-Digital Gaines and coordinated by Katy Fenn Women Film Pioneers The 1990s marked a turning point in feminist film studies. After the theoretical project of the 1970s-the golden age of feminist film theory-the field seemed to stand still. It was then...