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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1989
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 961
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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