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And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

By Anneke Smelik (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1998
ISBN
978-0-333-92041-1, 978-0-333-99470-2, 978-0-312-21142-4
DOI
10.1007/978-0-333-99470-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13015717 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 219\228
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
general; Film and Television Studies; Feminism; FiSociology of Culture; Cultural and Media Studies

Description

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .

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