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representing the maternal in U.S. films
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Addison, Heather > (ed.)
- Creator
- Goodwin-Kelly, Mary Kate > (ed.)
- Creator
- Roth, Elaine > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, dochters, sekserollen, zwangerschappen, lichamen, seksualiteit, films, horror, populaire cultuur, derde feministische golf, sociale klasse, etniciteit, gender, Verenigde Staten, essays
- Description
- Collection of essays on cinematic motherhood. This publication explores this widespread cultural fascination with motherhood through analyses of mothers in contemporary U.S. film, including both mainstream and independent cinematic representations. The contributors draw on a variety of critical approaches to consider the spectacle of pregnancy, mother-daughter relationships, mothers as predators, narcissists, and absent victims, and the ways in which cultural anxieties are displaced and projected onto marginalized mothers in films such as 'Fargo', 'Transamerica', 'Gas, Food, Lodging', 'Ordinary People', and Scream.
anatomy of a problem film
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Patton, Cindy
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- films, etniciteit, gender, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, receptie, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines the production and reception of so called 'problem films', for example movies about race and miscegenation, beginning with 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement and Pinky (1949). She also describes the arrival of the Method school of acting in Hollywood, which demanded that performers inhabit their characters’ lives. She describes how these developments reflected and helped popularize the concept of the liberal citizen in postwar America. She argues that the reception of projected identities offer new perspectives on contemporary identity politics, from feminism to the gay rights movement.
the rise of early Hollywood
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hallett, Hilary
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, filmsterren, gelijke behandeling, etniciteit, seksualiteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a 'New Woman.' Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. This book explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
black women in American film
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mask, Mia
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, televisie, zwarte vrouwen, loopbanen, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, etniciteit, feminisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This study places African American women's stardom in historical contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walker, Janet > (ed.)
- Creator
- Waldeman, Diane > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Lesage, Julia
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- documentaires, video's, films, autobiografieën, feminisme, theorieën, seksualiteit, etniciteit, sociale klasse, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- Aandacht voor de wederzijdse beïnvloeding tussen de documentaire als genre en feministische theorieën. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Sentimental contracts: dreams and documents of American labor / door Paula Rabinowitz: Flaherty's midwives / door Patricia R. Zimmerman: New subjectivities: documentary and self-representation in the post-verité age / door Michael Renov: Bad girls come and go, but a lying girl can never be fenched in / door Alexandra Juhasz: (Pass through) the mirror moment and 'Don't look back': music and gender in a rockumentary / door Susan Knobloch: Identities unmasked / empowerment unleashed: the documentary style of Michelle Parkerson / door Gloria J. Gibson: Cross-cultural filmmaking, Japanese style / door Ann Kaneko: Return, transference, and the constructedness of experience in German / Turkish documentary film / door Silvia Kratzer-Juilfs: Melancholic memories and manic politics: feminism, documentary, and the Armenian diaspora / door Anahid Kassabian en David Kazanjian: Fetishes and fossils: notes on documentary and materiality / door Laura U. Marks: On silence and other disruptions / door Deborah Lefkowitz: Fleeing from documentary: autobiographical film / video and the 'ethics of responsibility' / door Michelle Citron: From rupture to rapture through experimental bio-pics: Leslie Thornton's 'There was an unseen cloud moving' / door Chris Holmlund: Women's fragmented consciousness in feminist experimental autobiographical video / door Julia Lesage.
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