Framed
Subtitle: lesbians, feminists, and media culture
By: Judith Mayne.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Feminism and motion pictures; Feminist film criticism; Lesbianism in motion pictures; Women on television
Description: In Framed, Judith Mayne, a respected critic whose reach extends from film, literature, and feminism to the culture at large, offers a sustained exploration of feminist approaches to film and mass culture, with a particular focus on how contradiction informs feminism in productive and challenging ways. Accessible and engaging, Framed will be of interest to anyone who enjoys investigating women's roles in the creation of mass culture. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Cherchez la Femme Fatale; title: Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel, and Female; title: Performance 3; title: Female Criminality and Servitude in Claude Chabrol's; title: La Ceremonie 23; title: Inversion and Lesbian Plots in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques 41; title: II. In and Out: Feminism in Mass Culture; title: Walking the Tightrope of Feminism and Male Desire 67; title: L.A. Lawand Prime-Time Feminism 79; title: Fear of Falling 103; title: Caged and Framed: The Women-in-Prison Film 115; title: III. Lesbian Looks; title: A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship 149; title: Julie Zando's Primal Scenes 161; title: Girl Talk 179; title: Su Friedrich's Swimming Lessons 193; title: Permissions 213; title: Index 215.