num_pages: 227
description: 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 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 Café , and Sweetie and the Virgin Machine .
language: English
title: And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory
titlecomplete: And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory
genres: Film, Feminism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan