Women Filmmakers: Refocusing / Edition 1

by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul

Overview

This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital to understanding the relationship of women to the art and business of filmmaking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415967822
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul

Table of Contents

Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Women Filmmakers: Refocu, Part 2: Close-up on the Life and Works of Auteures from Europe, Part 3: Women in the Mainstrearn: Using Popular Genres In Europe, Part 4: Focus on Conditions of Production: Training, Funding, Distribution, Part 5: Women's Films through a Postcolonial Lens, Part 6: National and Cultural Montages: Crossing Boundaries, Part 7: Representations of and by Minority Women, Part 8: Revisioning Gender and Diversity in Canada, Selected Film Sources, Select Bibliography, About the Editors, Index

Editorial Reviews

"Refocusing is an important collection of essays and ideas, one that teaches as well as inspires." — Journal of Film and Video
"This is a great book. I'm sure that anyone who teaches women's cinema has felt the need for a book that brings the discussion of feminist theory up to date with current film practices." — Mary Alemany-Galway

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