And the Mirror Cracked

副标题: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

ISBN: 9780333920411

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2001-08-25

页数: 232

定价: USD 32.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage, and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence, Bagdad Cafeacute;, and Sweetie and the Virgin Machine.