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Motion pictures for women. --- Motion pictures --- Video recordings --- Catalogs. --- Catalogs.
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What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner's Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on consumer culture within films made for women. By exploring a number of representative ""girly films,"" including Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde, Maid in Manhattan, The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City: The Movie, Radner proposes that rather than being ""post-feminist,"
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Women in motion pictures. --- Cinéma et femmes. --- Motion pictures for women.
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At the margins of film noir : genre, range and female representation ## Reviewing the female gothic heroine : agency, identification and feminist film criticism ## Narrative journeys of the female gothic heroine ## Men in the woman's film : the gothic male, representation and female discourse ## Professional investigators and femmes fatales in neo-noir ## Reworking the woman's film : the neo-gothic heroine in contemporary cinema ## The currency of Hollywood heroines.
Film noir --- Heroines in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures for women --- Women in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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By framing their politics in terms of women's concerns, these films used women's desire and agency to contest the more general problems of social alienation and collectivism, and to re-imagine the possibilities of self-fulfillment under socialism.
Women in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures for women --- Moving-pictures for women --- Women --- History. --- Cinéma et femmes --- Cinéma --- Femmes --- Histoire et critique. --- Au cinéma.
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British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'.
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Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities.
Feminism and motion pictures. --- Feminist films --- Women in motion pictures. --- Masculinity in motion pictures. --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures for women --- History and criticism. --- Femmes --- Cinéma --- Histoire et critique --- Cinéma
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