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And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory
Anneke Smelik
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Paperback. This book explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema, and traces the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms. Smelik also highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 358.
And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .
And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333920411
SKU
V9780333920411
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About Anneke Smelik
ANNEKE SMELIK studied English and film theatre studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and received her PhD in film studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is lecturer in film and new media at the University of Nijmegen and has published widely on film, video and popular culture; she is co-editor of Women's Studies and Culture: a Feminist ... Read more
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