Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmmaker from the dawn of cinema including Alice Guy (France, 1896), Chantal Akerman (Belgium), Penny Marshall (U.S.), and Sally Potter (U.K.). Every effort has been made to include every kind of woman filmmaker: commercial and mainstream, avant-garde, and minority, and to give a complete cross-section of the work of these remarkable women. Scholars and students of film, popular culture, Women's Studies, and International Studies, as well as film...
Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmma...
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader addresses major movements and key figures of the avant-garde, including filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Isaac Julien and Julie Dash, investigates how underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video.
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contempo...
This title brings together a wide range of articles on American avante-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground film-making from its origins in the prewar era to contemporary film and video artists.
This title brings together a wide range of articles on American avante-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground film-making from its ...
Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot...
Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiten...
"Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance "is an interdisciplinary study of etiquette texts, conduct literature, and advice books and films. Gwendolyn" "Audrey Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Bronte, Frances E. W. Harper, and Martha Stewart as well as such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons. Specifically, Foster notes, I was interested in the possibility of locating power and agency in the voices of popular etiquette writers. Her investigation led her to analyze etiquette and conduct...
"Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance "is an interdisciplinary study of etiquette texts, conduct literature, and advice books and film...
Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, Martha Stewart, and Britney Spears typify class-passers those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own asserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in "Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture. "According to new rules of social standing in American popular culture, class is no longer defined by wealth, birth, or education. Instead, today s notion of class reflects a socially constructed and regulated series of performed acts and gestures rooted in the cult of celebrity.
In examining the quest for class mobility, Foster deftly...
Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, Martha Stewart, and Britney Spears typify class-passers those who claim different socioeconomic classes...
They are shot on high-definition digital cameras--with computer-generated effects added in postproduction--and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed on laptop, iPod, and cell phone screens. They are movies in the 21st century--the product of digital technologies that have revolutionized media production, content distribution, and the experience of moviegoing itself.
21st-Century Hollywood introduces readers to these global transformations and describes the decisive roles that Hollywood is playing in determining the digital...
They are shot on high-definition digital cameras--with computer-generated effects added in postproduction--and transmitted to theaters, websites, a...
Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining a variety of films (Post Tenebras Lux, Craig's Wife, and Bright Days Ahead) and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist (Dorothy Arzner, Calin Peter Netzer, and Paul Thomas Anderson), Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and effectively challenge everything from class and racism, as well as sexism, ageism, and homophobia.
Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining a variety of films (Post Tenebras Lux, Crai...
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new wor...
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema, an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new wor...
