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1	From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies more books like this by Molly Haskell add to wishlist 'From Reverence to Rape is an incisive, exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has historically viewed women. It is a valuable contribution not just to film criticism but to a society in which the vital role of women is just beginning to emerge.' - Christian Science Monitor see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood more books like this by Mick Lasalle add to wishlist Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema were modern! They took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality. led unapologetic careers and, in general, acted the way many think women only acted after 1968. Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer were at the forefront of an eruption of female talent; Ann ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory more books like this by Tania Modleski add to wishlist First published in 1988, "The Women Who Knew Too Much" remains a classic work in film theory and Criticism. Modleski's analysis of Hitchcock and women has become an essential reference for students and scholars, and one of the most widely cited works in film studies. Revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship, the book consists of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.93! \| first editions
4	Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form more books like this by Lucy Fischer add to wishlist Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the illustrations in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs to the glamorous pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazar, Lucy Fischer documents the ubiquity of Art ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," shares a surprising number and weave of concerns with those comedies. ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $16.75! \| first editions
6	Fast-Talking Dames more books like this by Maria DiBattista add to wishlist The film genre of screwball comedy--which includes THE LADY EVE, BRINGING UP BABY, and HIS GIRL FRIDAY--introduced a new type of character into American films, the fast-talking, and often verbally sophisticated, female. DiBattista's study examines this development, both in how it came about and how it changed film. Included are a number of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism more books like this by Diane Carson (Editor), Janice R Welsch (Editor), Linda Dittmar (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $31.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Feminist Film Theory: A Classical Reader more books like this by Sue Thornham (Editor) add to wishlist For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together the key, classic essays in feminist film theory. Feminist Film Theory maps the impact of major theoretical developments on this ... see all copies from $3.83! new only from $31.20! \| SVS
9	Cui: Women Through the Lens: CL more books like this by Shuqin Cui add to wishlist Women through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $14.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Issues in Feminist Film Criticism more books like this by Patricia Erens (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.75! new only from $14.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Women in Film Noir more books like this by E. Ann Kaplan add to wishlist The first edition of "Women in Film Noir" (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis and semiotics. This edition is expanded to include further essays which reflect the renewed interest in Film Noir. Exploring "neo-noir", postmodernism and other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.44! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre more books like this by Lucy Fischer add to wishlist Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, this book investigates how the motherhood topic presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres, showing the tendency of certain genres to specialize in representing a particular social or psychological dimension of motherhood. see all copies from $2.02! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Visual and other pleasures more books like this by Laura Mulvey add to wishlist The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics. The essays also tell, implicitly, a personal story - of someone ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $34.20! \| SVS
14 view cover	Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film more books like this by Carol J Clover add to wishlist Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. According to that view, the power of films like "Halloween" and "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" lies in their ability to yoke us to the killer's perspective and to make us party to his atrocities. Carol Clover argues, ... see all copies from $17.85!
15	A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 more books like this by Jeanine Basinger add to wishlist Basinger examines Hollywood's "women's films"- their individual stars and stories and the common threads that tie them together. The book looks into how, although the films may have contained liberating themes, they were all eventually resigned to a very fixed idea of "The Way Woman Ought To Be". see all copies from $9.28! new only from $19.35! \| first editions
16 view cover	Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film more books like this by M Elise Marubbio add to wishlist "Killing the Indian Maiden" examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role in which a young Native woman allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. In studying thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.50! \| SVS
17 view cover	A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema more books like this by Jennifer M Bean (Editor), Diane Negra (Editor), Jennifer M Bean (Editor) add to wishlist "A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema" marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival ... see all copies from $8.39! new only from $9.88! \| SVS
18 view cover	Chick Flicks - PB more books like this by B Ruby Rich, B Rubyrich add to wishlist If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100 per cent pure cultural historical odyssey, "Chick Flicks" - with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays - captures the birth and growth of ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists more books like this by Molly Haskell add to wishlist Molly Haskell, one of America's leading film critics, has been delighting readers for decades with her intelligence and insight. Her landmark book, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, praised for its "wit and style" and called "a valuable contribution to film scholarship," is still considered among the most stimulating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	Girl Reel more books like this by Bonnie J Morris add to wishlist In this memoir, author Bonnie J. Morris recollects her days of going to the cinema, which began when she was 11 years old. In doing so, she pays homage to classics such as YENTL, PAPER MOON, and THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera more books like this by E Ann Kaplan add to wishlist Analyzes the treatment of women in American movies and examines the themes of a variety of contemporary movies made by women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.34! \| first editions
22	Women's Pictures: Feminism & Cinema more books like this by Annette Kuhn add to wishlist This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and practice between the eighties and the nineties. Readers, whether engaged in the making of films, the study of them, or simply the pleasure of viewing them, will appreciate the way in which the author ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich more books like this by Cinzia Romani add to wishlist Germany's film industry, under its sinister Minister of Culture, a rakish Josef Goebbels, sought to entertain the German people with largely escapist fare: cocktail comedies, musicals and historical costume pageants. The aim was to emulate Hollywood's fare. The author explores the careers of the Nazi movie actresses with deft characterisations and ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	A Womans View more books like this by Jeanine Basinger add to wishlist A lively portrayal of Hollywood's contradictory message of conformity and riotous freedom in films about women's lives and loves. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $21.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film more books like this by Barry K Grant (Editor) add to wishlist An undying procession of sons of Dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning. Indeed, in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear, Barry Keith Grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender, particularly in anxieties about sexual difference and gender politics. ... see all copies from $6.44! new only from $31.68! \| first editions \| SVS

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