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And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

By Anneke Smelik

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0333920414, 9780333920411, 0312211422, 9780312211424, 9780333994702
LCC
QC770 .W643 1985
Open Library ID
OL1371002M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1989107 bytes)
Pages
227\245
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the 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 Caf?, and Sweetie and the Virgin Machine.

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