And the Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly 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 Cafe, Sweetie, and The Virgin Machine.
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Anneke Smelik received a Ph.D. in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam and currently runs Bureau Topaaz, a consultancy in visual media.
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Cinema is a cultural practice where myths about women and femininity, and men and masculinity, in short, myths about sexual difference are produced, reproduced, and represented. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internal ocularization, libidinal coherence, zero ocularization, implied director, poststructuralist film theory, film narratology, feminist cinema, posing scenes, internal focalization, diegetic narrator, excessive imagery, masculinist society, cinematic authorship, filmic narration, thriller story, feminist filmmakers, feminist film theory, external focalization, cinematic narration, visual excess, intellectual montage, racialized sexuality, authorial subjectivity, voyeuristic look, classical cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Broken Mirrors, The Virgin Machine, Cruel Embrace, Helke Sander, Question of Silence, Marleen Gorris, New German Cinema, The Last Island, Stabat Mater, Susie Sexpert, Girls Night Out, San Francisco, West Germany, Antonia's Line, Camera Obscura, Christian Metz, Jane Birkin, Jane Campion New!
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Cinema is a cultural practice where myths about women and femininity, and men and masculinity, in short, myths about sexual difference are produced, reproduced, and represented. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internal ocularization, libidinal coherence, zero ocularization, implied director, poststructuralist film theory, film narratology, feminist cinema, posing scenes, internal focalization, diegetic narrator, excessive imagery, masculinist society, cinematic authorship, filmic narration, thriller story, feminist filmmakers, feminist film theory, external focalization, cinematic narration, visual excess, intellectual montage, racialized sexuality, authorial subjectivity, voyeuristic look, classical cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Broken Mirrors, The Virgin Machine, Cruel Embrace, Helke Sander, Question of Silence, Marleen Gorris, New German Cinema, The Last Island, Stabat Mater, Susie Sexpert, Girls Night Out, San Francisco, West Germany, Antonia's Line, Camera Obscura, Christian Metz, Jane Birkin, Jane Campion New!
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- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
- Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image by Tamsin Wilton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Female Gaze: Women As Viewers of Popular Culture by Lorraine Gamman on page 24, page 87, and Back Matter
- The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago on page 160, and Back Matter
- Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine by Margaret Whitford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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