Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema......Page 34
Is the gaze male?......Page 36
Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936)......Page 49
Fetishism and the repression of Motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932)......Page 62
The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946)......Page 73
Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977)......Page 86
The independent feminist film......Page 96
The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA......Page 98
Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972)......Page 104
Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane (The German Sisters) (1981)......Page 117
The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers and Film about a Woman Who(1972  4)......Page 126
The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971  81)......Page 138
The avant-garde theory film: three case studies from Britain and the USA: Sigmund Freud's Dora (1979), Thriller (1979), Mulvey/ Wollen's Amy! (1980)......Page 155
Mothers and daughters in two recent women's films: Mulvey/Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1976) and Michelle Citron's Daughter-Rite (1978)......Page 184
The woman director in the Third World: Sara Gomez's One Way or Another (1974)......Page 202
The future of the independent feminist film: strategies of production, exhibition, and distribution in the USA......Page 208
Conclusion: Motherhood and patriarchal discourse......Page 213
Notes......Page 220
Filmographies and synopses......Page 237
Appendix for teachers......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 255
Name index......Page 266
Subject index......Page 270