And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

by Anneke Smelik

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333920414
• ISBN13: 9780333920411
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"