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Women Filmmakers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Women Filmmakers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital

Women in German Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Women in German Yearbook

Volume 12 of Women in German Yearbook opens with a cluster of cross-disciplinary articles. Sara Lennox explores pertinent theoretical issues and introduces articles by historian Atina Grossman, sociologist Myra Marx Ferree, and political theorist Joan Cocks. Three subsequent articles focus on the nineteenth century: Todd Kontje challenges the notion that the Wars of Liberation renewed conservatism regarding gender, Irmela Marei Kr_ger-F_rhoff presents a new reading of the father-daughter relationship in Kleist?s Marquise of O . . . , and Helen G. Morris-Keitel describes the ?cultural work? of Louise Otto?s Castle and Factory. ø Barbara Hales analyzes the criminal femme fatale as evidence of...

St. Paul
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

St. Paul

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-15
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a political intervention and cinematic breakthrough, the script forces a revolutionary transformation on the contemporary legacy of Paul. In Pasolini’s kaleidoscope, we encounter fascistic movements, resistance fighters, and faltering revolutions, each of which reflects on aspects of the Pauline teachings. From Jerusalem to Wall...

Marion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 457

Marion

Mysteries of identity and the trials of working girls from the first published Asian North American novelist.

The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought

  • Categories: Art

Reconstructs the constitutive role that German actresses played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought. Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other ...

Feminism, Film, Fascism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Feminism, Film, Fascism

German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn. In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by focusing on a cultural realm in which mourning for the Nazi past and opposing the patriarchal and authoritarian nature of postwar German culture are central concerns—namely, women's feminist auto/biographical films of the 1970s and 1980s. After a broad survey of feminist theory, Linville analyzes five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages—Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace, Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, Pale Mother, Jutta Brückner's Hunger Years, Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane, and Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou. By juxtaposing these films with the accepted theories on German culture, Linville offers a fresh appraisal not only of the films' importance but especially of their challenge to misogynist interpretations of the German failure to grieve for the horrors of its Nazi past.

The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century

This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.

Balancing Acts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Balancing Acts

Fourteen essays by a highly significant and prolific voice among contemporary Austrian authors.

The Fighting Sullivans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Fighting Sullivans

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific. The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in its military history, was immortalized—and valorized—in the 1944 film The Fighting Sullivans. This book tells the story of how calamity, with the help of Hollywood and the wartime publicity machine, transformed a family of marginal and disreputable young men, intensely disliked in their hometown, into heroes. The Sullivan boys joined the armed forces after Pearl Harbor, and the US Navy accepted that they would all serve on one ship,...

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 676

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.