Cinema and the Second Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinema and the Second Sex write by Carrie Tarr. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Cinema and the Second Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women's filmmaking in France has been a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive – over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France in the 1980s and 1990s. On the other hand, despite the heritage of French feminism, French women directors characteristically disclaim their gender as a significant factor in their filmmaking. This incisive study provides an informative, critical guide to this major body of work, exploring the boundaries between personal films (intimate psychological dramas relating to key stages in life) and genre films (which demonstrate women's ability to appropriate and rework popular genres). It analyzes the effects of postfeminism, women's desire to enter the mainstream, and the impact of a new generation of filmmakers, enabling readers to take stock of the wealth and diversity of women's contribution to French cinema during the 1980s and 1990s.
Le Deuxième Sexe
Le Deuxième Sexe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Le Deuxième Sexe write by Simone de Beauvoir. This book was released on 1989. Le Deuxième Sexe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema write by Jean-Pierre Boulé. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
Hollywood's Second Sex
Hollywood's Second Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hollywood's Second Sex write by Aubrey Malone. This book was released on 2015-04-24. Hollywood's Second Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men." Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch, this study of film industry misogyny describes how female stars were maltreated by a sexist studio system--until women like Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis fought for parity. The careers of Doris Day, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Landis, Frances Farmer, Dorothy Dandridge, Inger Stevens and many others are examined, along with more recent actresses like Demi Moore and Sharon Stone. Women who worked behind the scenes, writing screenplays, producing and directing without due credit, are also covered.
The Body and the Screen
The Body and the Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body and the Screen write by Kate Ince. This book was released on 2017-01-12. The Body and the Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the “Thinking Cinema” series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study.
