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Reclaiming the Archive : Feminism and Film History.
Title:
Reclaiming the Archive : Feminism and Film History.
Author:
Callahan, Vicki.
ISBN:
9780814336878
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (470 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reclaiming the Archive: Archaeological Explorations toward a Feminism 3.0 -- I. Gazing Outward: The Spectrum of Feminist Reception History -- 1. Unmasking the Gaze: Feminist Film Theory, History, and Film Studies -- 2. Les Belles Dames sans Merci, Femmes Fatales, Vampires, Vamps, and Gold Diggers: The Transformation and Narrative Value of Aggressive Fallen Women -- 3. "I wanted life to be romantic, and I wanted to be thin": Girls Growing Up with Cinema in the 1930s -- 4. The "True Love" of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- 5. "She Will Never Look": Film Spectatorship, Black Feminism, and Scary Subjectivities -- II. Rewriting Authorship -- 6. Lois Weber, Star Maker -- 7. Reading as a Woman: The Collaboration of Ayako Wakao and Yasuzo Masumura -- 8. Women in the Nouvelle Vague: The Lost Continent? -- 9. Investigating an Interval: Sarah Bernhardt, Hamlet, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 -- 10. Vision and Visibility: Women Filmmakers, Contemporary Authorship, and Feminist Film Studies -- 11. Black and White: Mercedes de Acosta's Glorious Enthusiasms -- III. Excavating Early Cinema -- 12. Vitagraph Stardom: Constructing Personalities for "New" Middle-Class Consumption -- 13. Clara, Ouida, Beulah, et. al.: Women Screenwriters in American Silent Cinema -- 14. Making More than a Spectacle of Themselves: Creating the Militant Suffragette in Votes for Women -- 15. Visualizing the Modern Mexican Woman: Santa and Cinematic Nation-Building -- 16. Sisters in Rebellion: The Unexpected Kinship of Germaine Dulac and Virginia Woolf -- IV. Constructing a (Post)feminist Future.

17. "Misty Water-Colored Memories of the Way We Were . . .": Postfeminist Nostalgia in Contemporary Romance Narratives -- 18. On Cyberfeminism and Cyberwomanism: High-Tech Mediations of Feminism's Discontents -- 19. The Birth of the Local Feminist Sphere in the Global Era: Yeoseongjang and "Trans-cinema" -- 20. The Future of the Archive: An Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson -- Contributors -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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