| Description |
xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Bodies cut and dissolved: Dada and surrealist film / Elza Adamowicz -- Diva in the spotlight: music hall to cinema / Kelley Conway -- 'Mon cul est intersexuel?': Arletty's performance of gender / Keith Reader -- For our eyes only: body and sexuality in reverse motion in the films of Jean Cocteau / James S. Williams -- Setting the agenders: Simone Signoret - The pre-feminist star body / Susan Hayward -- Gender, modernism and mass culture in the new wave / Geneviève Sellier -- 'Autistic masculinity' in Jean-Pierre Melville's crime thrillers / Ginette Vincendeau -- Gender in the French fantasy film, 1965-95 / Guy Austin -- Going through the motions: unconscious optics and corporal resistance in Miéville and Godard's France/tour/détour/deux/enfants / Michael Witt -- The god, the king, the fool, and øø : anamorphosing the films of Beineix / Phil Powrie -- AIDS-Video: Representing the body in Guibert's La Pudeur ou l'impudeur / Alex Hughes -- Gender and sexuality in New New Wave Cinema / Dina Sherzer -- Running out of place: gender, space, and crisis in Ferreira Barbosa's Les Gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel and Lvovsky's Oublie-moi / Julia Dobson -- Identification and female friendship in contemporary French film / Emma Wilson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: pages 269-270. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, French -- History.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Feminism and motion pictures -- France.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Alex, 1960-
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Williams, James S., 1963-
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| ISBN |
1859735703 cloth |
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1859735754 paperback |
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