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Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular culture / Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer London ; New York: Routledge, 2011.
Call No: 744.7 FEMAuthor: Radner, Hilary ; Stringer, Rebecca Source: USPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2011PhysDes: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN DIRECTORS ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; [THIRTEEN] 13 GOING ON 30 (US, Gary Winick, 2004) ; BABY MAMA (US, Michael McCullers, 2008) ; BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002) ; BRAVE ONE, THE (US/AT, Neil Jordan, 2007) ; BRIDE WARS (US, Gary Winick, 2009) ; CASINO ROYALE (CZ/US/UK, Martin Campbell, 2006) ; ENCHANTED (US, KEVIN LIMA, 2007) ; [FORTY] 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, THE (US, Judd Apatow, 2005) ; FRIENDS WITH MONEY (US, Nicole Holofcener, 2006) ; HARD CANDY (US, David Slade, 2005) ; JUNO (US/CN, Jason Reitman 2007) ; KISSING JESSICA STEIN (US, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2001) ; MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006) ; MICHAEL CLAYTON (US, Tony Gilroy, 2007) ; MISS CONGENIALITY (US, Donald Petrie, 2000) ; SECRET LIFE OF BEES (US, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008) ; SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE (US, MICHAEL PATRICK KING, 2008) ; SINGLE MAN, A (US, Tom Ford, 2009) ; SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS, THE (US, Ken Kwapis, 2005) ; WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005) Summary: "Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporaty Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of masculinity as well as femininity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of figures, bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780415895880Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements; Introduction: "Re-vision"?: Feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer; Part I: Masculinity in question -- "The first Bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger -- Queer memories and universal emotions: A Single Man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis -- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstruction of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after New Queer Cinema / Gary Needham; Part II: New feminine subjects: a space for women? -- Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism: gender, irony, and new romantic comedy / Yvonne Tasker -- Neoliberal feminism in Miss Congeniality (2000) / Yael D Sherman -- Girls' sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky -- Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner; Part III: Consuming culture(s) -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap -- Music and the woman's film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton -- Independence at what cost? Economics and desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money (2006) / Michele Schreiber -- The feminist politics of Sofia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christine Lane and Nicole Richter; Part IV: Relationships, identity and family -- "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), and the new intimacies of reproduction / JaneMaree Maher -- Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler -- "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride Wars (2009), wedding envy, and chick flicks / Heather Brook -- Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad; Part V: Gender and violence -- Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Blythwood's The Secret Life of Bees (2008) / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- From victim to vigilante: gender, violence, and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer -- "When the woman looks": Haute Tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant; Contributors -- Index
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Strong women 2 / compiled by Jose de Esteban and Wendy Thomas London: BFI National Library, c2003.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 036 -02 STRAuthor: Esteban, Jose de ; Thomas, Wendy Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI National LibraryPubDate: c2003PhysDes: 14 p. ; 30 cmSeries: 16+ Source guidesSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; OTHERS, THE (US/SP, Alejandro Amenabar, 2001) ; PANIC ROOM (US, David Fincher, 2002) ; BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002) Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
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Youth culture in global cinema / edited by Timpothy Shary and Alexandra Seibel Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Call No: 409-053.6Author: Shary, Timothy ; Seibel, Alexandra Edition: 2007Place: Austin, TXPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: 348 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: TEEN FILMS ; WILD ONE, THE (US, Laslo Benedek, 1953) ; BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (US, Richard Brooks, 1955) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) ; WILD STYLE (US/GW, Charlie Ahearn, 1983) ; BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002) ; BEAUTIFUL THING (UK, Hattie McDonald, 1996) ; FUCKING AMAL (SW, Lukas Moodysson, 1998) Summary: Coming of age is a pivotal experience for everyone. So it is no surprise that filmmakers around the globe explore the experiences of growing up in their work. From blockbuster U.S. movies such as the Harry Potter series to thought-provoking foreign films such as Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider, films about youth delve into young people's attitudes, styles, sexuality, race, families, cultures, class, psychology, and ideas. These cinematic representations of youth also reflect perceptions about youth in their respective cultures, as well as young people's worth to the larger society. Indeed, as the contributors to this volume make plain, films about young people open a very revealing window on the attitudes and values of cultures across the globe.
Youth Culture in Global Cinema offers the first comprehensive investigation of how young people are portrayed in film around the world. Eighteen established film scholars from eleven different national backgrounds discuss a wide range of films that illuminate the varied conditions in which youth live. The essays are grouped thematically around the issues of youthful resistance and rebellion; cultural and national identity, including religion and politics; and sexual maturation, including gender distinctions and coming-of-age queer. Some essays engage in close readings of films, while others examine the advertising and reception of films or investigate psychological issues. The volume concludes with filmographies of over 700 youth-related titles arranged by nation and theme. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780292714144Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Youth Culture Shock (Timothy Shary) --
Part I. Rebellion and Resistance -- Chapter 1. American Juvenile Delinquency Movies and the European Censors: The Cross-Cultural Reception and Censorship of The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel Without a Cause (Daniel Biltereyst) -- Chapter 2. The Imported Rebellion: Criminal Guys and Consumerist Girls in Postwar Germany and Austria (Alexandra Seibel) -- Chapter 3. Rebels with a Cause: Children versus the Military Industrial Complex (Mick Broderick) --
Part II. Politics and Style -- Chapter 4. Chinese "Youth Problem" Films in the 1980s: The Apolitics of Rebellion (Xuelin Zhou) -- Chapter 5. The Age of Transition: Angels and Blockers in Recent Eastern and Central European Films (Anikó Imre) -- Chapter 6. The Sound of the South Bronx: Youth Culture, Genre, and Performance in Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style (Kimberley Bercov Monteyne) --
Part III. Youth and Inner-National Conflict -- Chapter 7. Out of Depth: The Politics of Disaffected Youth and Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Laura Podalsky) -- Chapter 8. Birds That Cannot Fly: Childhood and Youth in City of God (Sonia Cristina Lino) -- Chapter 9. Portraying Muslim Youth in Egypt and India: "Worship None but Allah and Be Dutiful and Good to Parents" (Claudia Preckel) -- Chapter 10. Projecting a Bridge for Youth: Islamic "Enlightenment" versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema (Savas Arslan) --
Part IV. Narrating Gender and Difference -- Chapter 11. Narrating the Feminine Nation: The Coming-of-Age Girl in Contemporary New Zealand Cinema (Mary M. Wiles) -- Chapter 12. Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider (Sarah Projansky) -- Chapter 13. Pachyderm's Progress (Murray Pomerance) -- Chapter 14. Boys Will Be Men: Teen Masculinities in Recent Spanish Cinema (Santiago Fouz-Hernández) --
Part V. Coming-of-Age Queer -- Chapter 15. Girls Looking at Girls Looking for Girls: The Visual Pleasures and Social Empowerment of Queer Teen Romance Flicks (Susan Driver) -- Chapter 16. Youth, Sexuality, and the Nation: Beautiful Thing and Show Me Love (Scott Henderson) -- Chapter 17. Different from the Other(s): German Youth and the Threat of Homosexual Seduction (Stephen Tropiano) --
Appendix A: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Nation -- Appendix B: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Theme -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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