Herstories on Screen : : Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths /

Herstories on Screen : : Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths / / Kathleen Cummins.

From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries’ popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films cha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Cummins, Kathleen,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 35 film stills
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: HERSTORIES IN THE COUNTER NARRATIVE TRADITION
  • 1. WOMEN’S STORYTELLING— NARRATIVE, GENRE, AND THE FEMALE VOICE
  • 2. DEBUNKING THE CULT OF TRUE WOMANHOOD/MOTHERHOOD ON THE FRONTIER
  • 3. FEMINIST SYMBOLIC FRONTIER LANDSCAPES
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: THE FILMS
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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