Shot/Countershot : Film Tradition and Women's Cinema.

"Do films made by women comprise a 'counter-cinema' radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or 'countershot, ' and Lucy Fischer argues persuasively for this view. In rich detai...

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Main Author: Fischer, Lucy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Pre/Texts: An Introduction ; 2. Mythic Discourse ; 3. The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier ; 4. Kiss Me Deadly: Heterosexual Romance ; 5. Shall We Dance? Woman and the Musical; 6. Sisters: The Divided Self ; 7. Girl Groups: Female Friendship ; 8. Women in Love: The Theme of Lesbianism; 9. Murder, She Wrote: Women Who Kill; 10. The Dialogic Text: An Epilogue ; Appendix ; Index