The current level of activity among women directors is unequaled in the history of feature films. This unprecedented study examines major contemporary women directors of narrative feature film--their themes, their art, and the circumstances under which they work. Quart contends that women are creating a film language and film sensibility that are unique, strong, and--until now--unexplored. Her discussion centers on the ties between women directors, rather than on a survey of women who direct films. Beginning with the antecedents to today's burgeoning number of women directors, the study progresses to American women directors. Subsequent chapters focus on women directors in Western Europe and Eastern Europe, with some attention as well to Asia and Latin America.
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“I'd like to see an American audience able to analyze both difficult and commercial celluloid kitsch. . . . Viewers can teach themselves this skill with clear and readable books like Quart's Women Directors.”–Women's Review of Books
“Barbara Quart's knowledgeable survey chronicles the emergence of a New Cinema, where women directors in a dozen countries bring fresh language and sensitivity to the conventional themes of commercial feature movies.”–Backstage
“Barbara Quart's knowledgeable survey chronicles the emergence of a New Cinema, where women directors in a dozen countries bring fresh language and sensitivity to the conventional themes of commercial feature movies.”–
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BARBARA KOENIG QUART is Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
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Women directors, almost invisible just fifteen years ago, have from the late 1970s on, especially in the 1980s, been entering feature filmmaking in unprecedented numbers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sheer Madness, Elaine May, Nine Months, Eastern European, Smooth Talk, United States, Entre Nous, Claudia Weill, Dorothy Arzner, Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Susan, Peppermint Soda, Rosa Luxemburg, Christa Klages, Film Stills Archive, Heartbreak Kid, Hester Street, Joyce Chopra, Desert Hearts, New Leaf, Question of Silence, Amy Heckerling, Larisa Shepitko, Museum of Modern Art New!
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Women directors, almost invisible just fifteen years ago, have from the late 1970s on, especially in the 1980s, been entering feature filmmaking in unprecedented numbers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sheer Madness, Elaine May, Nine Months, Eastern European, Smooth Talk, United States, Entre Nous, Claudia Weill, Dorothy Arzner, Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Susan, Peppermint Soda, Rosa Luxemburg, Christa Klages, Film Stills Archive, Heartbreak Kid, Hester Street, Joyce Chopra, Desert Hearts, New Leaf, Question of Silence, Amy Heckerling, Larisa Shepitko, Museum of Modern Art New!
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- Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception by Louise Heck-Rabi on page 34, and Back Matter
- New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, Theory by Elaine Showalter on page 91, and Back Matter
- Good Girls by Laura Ruby on page 91, and Back Matter
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- Children's Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory (Children's Literature and Culture) by Ian Wojik-Andrews on page 149, and Back Matter
- Outsider Features: American Independent Films of the 1980s (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) by Richard K. Ferncase on page 14, and Back Matter
- Nationalisms and Sexualities by Andrew Parker on page 295
- Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Reading Women Writing) by Barbara Kosta in Back Matter
- Women And AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) by Ellen Cole on page 291
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