The Women's Companion to International Film
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520088794 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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The editors even have some fun by inserting trivia questions throughout the text. The index of the films mentioned in the text is helpful. Evaluated are concepts (e.g., crossdressing, motherhood, postmodernism), genres, actresses, directors (women and men), national cinemas, studios, and much more. From Library Journal Scores of female writers and filmmakers contributed to this encyclopedic inves-tigation first published in 1990 in Britain. Kuhn and Radstone hope their efforts spur further works. One obvious choice for study would be silent film star Clara Bow, the "It Girl," who is ignored here in favor of her less popular but more politically correct contemporary
The book also deals with concepts in film theory and criticism. The editors include explanations of technical terms regularly used in such writing, thus making the works of specialists in these areas more accessible to lay cinema-goers.. This feminist guide to cinema presents the women and men who have been essential to films around the world from the first days of cinema to the 1990s. Eighty contributors cover the history of film-making, from mainstream Hollywood to the avant garde, Hitchcock to Agnes Varda, aborigin