Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema
Author:   Lucy Fischer
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   3602
ISBN:  

9780691637532


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema


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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 detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuali

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Author:   Lucy Fischer
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   3602
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.822kg
ISBN:  

9780691637532


ISBN 10:   0691637539
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*1. Pre/Texts: An Introduction, pg. 1*2. Mythic Discourse, pg. 32*3. The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier, pg. 63*4. Kiss Me Deadly: Heterosexual Romance, pg. 89*5. Shall We Dance? Woman and the Musical, pg. 132*6. Sisters: The Divided Self, pg. 172*7. Girl Groups: Female Friendship, pg. 216*8. Women in Love: The Theme of Lesbianism, pg. 250*9. Murder, She Wrote: Women Who Kill, pg. 269*10. The Dialogic Text: An Epilogue, pg. 301*Appendix. List of Additional Films and Topics for Teaching, pg. 330*Index, pg. 335

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