Shot/Countershot : : Film Tradition and Women's Cinema / / Lucy Fischer.
Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or "countershot," and Lucy Fischer argues persuasively for this view. In rich detail this...
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Fischer, Lucy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shot/Countershot : Film Tradition and Women's Cinema / Lucy Fischer. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1989 1 online resource (362 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 961 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pre/Texts: An Introduction -- 2. Mythic Discourse -- 3. The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier -- 4. Kiss Me Deadly: Heterosexual Romance -- 5. Shall We Dance? Woman and the Musical -- 6. Sisters: The Divided Self -- 7. Girl Groups: Female Friendship -- 8. Women in Love: The Theme of Lesbianism -- 9. Murder, She Wrote: Women Who Kill -- 10. The Dialogic Text: An Epilogue -- Appendix. List of Additional Films and Topics for Teaching -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or "countershot," and Lucy Fischer argues persuasively for this view. In rich detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuality and locates it in the broad context of recent feminist film, literary, and art criticism. Fischer also employs an original critical model of the dialogue between women's cinema and film tradition in the very organization of the book. Each chapter discusses a theme or genre (such as the musical, the "double," the myth of womanhood, and the figure of the actress), counterposing two or more works--from the feminist and from the dominant cinema. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a women's film tradition that not only addresses but reworks and remakes the mainstream cinema.Fischer successfully combines two main strains of feminist criticism: the deconstructive critique of the dominant culture from a feminist standpoint and the study of a feminist counterculture. Examining films from Persona and The Lady from Shanghai to Girlfriends and Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness, the book offers fresh interpretations of individual works and can, incidentally, serve as an introduction to the field of feminist film criticism.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Feminism and motion pictures. Feminist films History and criticism. Film criticism. Intertextuality. Women in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691609218 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859955 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400859955 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400859955.jpg |
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