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"Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the "chick flick" to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans-cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western. contexts."

Sex role in motion pictures. --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Au cinéma --- Audience. --- Female role. --- Film --- Gender roles. --- Global perspective. --- Globalt perspektiv. --- Kvinnor i filmen. --- Kvinnor och film. --- Kvinnor på film. --- Kvinnorollen. --- Könsroller i filmen. --- Könsroller och film. --- Könsroller. --- Male role. --- Mansrollen. --- Publik. --- Queer theory. --- Queerteori. --- Regissörer. --- Theatre and film directors. --- Women in motion pictures. --- Feminist theory. --- Feministisk teori. --- Au cinéma. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Au cinéma.