Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen

by Alison Butler

Book Overview

Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903364272
• ISBN13: 9781903364277
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher