Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema

by Amy Lawrence and Amy Lawrence

Book Overview

Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus, Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of women in film, enabling us to see individual films in new ways, and to ask new questions of other films.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520070828
• ISBN13: 9780520070820
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"