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Chick flicks : theories and memories of the feminist film movement
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Prologue : I found it at the movies ; Film in the sixties -- Prologue : Hippie chick in the art world ; Carolee Schneemann's Fuses -- Prologue : angst and joy on the women's film festival circuit ; Leni Riefenstahl, The deceptive myth -- Prologue : life, death, and tragic homecoming ; Voodoo verité : Maya Deren's Divine horsemen -- Prologue : an iguana, some wolves, and the dawn of theory ; In the name of feminist film criticism -- Prologue : O brave new world ; One way or another : Sara Gomez and the Cuban experience -- Prologue : a woman's declaration of secession from the avant-garde ; Sex and cinema -- Prologue : love's labor lost ; Misconception : laboring under no illusions -- Prologue : cows and hero-worship ; The films of Yvonne Rainer -- Prologue : Knokke-Heist and the fury that was Edinburgh ; Designing desire : Chantal Akerman -- Prologue : euphoria reclaims history ; From repressive tolerance to erotic liberation : Maedchen in uniform -- Prologue : softball, the Goddess, and lesbian film culture ; The right of re-vision : Michelle Citron's Daughter rite (co-authored with Linda Williams -- Prologue : the allure of alchemy ; Femicide investigation : Thriller -- Prologue : sour grapes ; She says, he says : the power of the narrator in modernist film politics -- Prologue : sex, gender, and consumer culture ; Antiporn : soft issue, hard world (Not a love story) -- Prologue : unguided tours ; The feminist avant-garde -- Prologue : attacking the sisters, or the limits of disagreement ; Cinefeminism and its discontents -- Prologue : libel threats and exile tactics ; Truth, faith, and the individual : thoughts on U.S. documentary film practice -- Prologue : disempowerment and the politics of rage ; Lady killers : A question of silence -- Prologue : film star as outstanding human being ; Julie Christie goes to Washington -- Prologue : blaming the victim ; Good girls, bad girls : Joyce Chopra's Smooth talk -- Prologue : the Berks and the sex wars ; Feminism and sexuality in the eighties -- Epilogue : charting the eighties
SUBJECTS
FEMINISM AND MOTION PICTURES
FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM
FEMINIST FILMS
WOMEN IN MOTION PICTURES
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