Women and film : a Sight and Sound reader

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Foreword / Philip Dodd -- Border crossings: women and film in context / Pam Cook -- Everything in question: women and film in prospect / Linda Ruth Williams -- The colour of virtue: Lillian Gish, whiteness and femininity / Richard Dyer -- Exorcised: Marlene Dietrich and German nationalism / Gertrud Koch -- From Dietrich to Madonna: cross-gender icons / Marjorie Garber -- Glamour and suffering: Gong Li and the history of Chinese stars / Berenice Reynaud -- Denying her place: Hattie McDaniel's suprising acts / Stephen Bourne -- Audrey Hepburn: fashion, film and the 50s / Elizabeth Wilson -- Catherine Deneuve and French womanhood / Ginette Vincendeau -- Never a victim: Jodie Foster, a new kind of female hero / B. Ruby Rich -- The outsider: Whoopi Goldberg and shopping mall America / Andrea Stuart -- A body of political work: Tilda Swinton in interview / Michael O'Pray -- High and low: the transformation of the rape-revenge movie / Carol J. Clover -- Thelma & Louise and the tradition of the male road movie / Manohla Dargis -- The Alien trilogy: from feminism to AIDS / Amy Taubin -- Working against the grain: women in animation / Irene Kotlarz -- Sisters under the skin: video and blockbuster erotic thrillers / Linda Ruth Williams -- The beast's beauty: Jean Gabin, masculinity, and the French hero / Ginette Vincendeau -- Grabbing the knife: The Silence of the Lambs and the history of the serial killer movie / Amy Taubin -- Cape Fear and femininity as destructive power / Pam Cook -- Falling Down and the rise of the average white male / Carol J. Clover -- Men, women, children, and the baby boom movies / Lizzie Francke -- Fathers and daughters in French cinema from the 20s to La Belle Noiseuse / Ginette Voncendeau -- Homo promo: the new queer cinema / B. Ruby Rich -- Queer questions: a response to B. Ruby Rich / Pratibha Paramar -- Queer male cinema and feminism / Amy Taubin -- Female misbehaviour: the cinema of Monika Treut / Julia Knight -- Leni Riefenstahl: the body beautiful, art cinema and fascist aesthetics / Thomas Elaesser -- Chantal Akerman and feminist filmmaking / Angela McRobbie -- Monitoring conformity: the career of Doris Dörrie / Carole Angier -- Mira Nair: a new hybrid cinema / Andrea Stuart -- Against crawling realism: Sally Potter on Orlando / Walter Donohue -- Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust and a black aesthetic / Karen Alexander -- Jane Campion: costume drama and reclaiming women's past / Stella Bruzzi

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