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Author: Wollen, Peter
PhysDes: Article
Subject: SYMBOLIC ORDER; PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE; SEMIOTICS; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980); PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977)
Summary: A lengthy essay/article by Peter Wollen on semiotics and its relationship to a dominant patriarchal symbolic order within film. He explores the problematic of filmmakers attempting to counter patriarchal discourse. Wollen notes that one cinematic path is to avoid verbal language altogether and instead focus on icons, indices, images, and traces. However, Wollen rejects this option as ineffective as he places both verbal and visual language as crucial to the composition of films, in terms of both signifier and signified. Wollen also comments that in his counter-language projects with Laura Mulvey ("Amy!", "Penthesilea", and "Riddles of the Sphinx"), films where women's voices predominate in various modes, a fractured body of language has resulted

Author: Danino, Nina; Moy-Thomas, Lucy
PhysDes: Article
Subject: MULVEY, LAURA; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980); PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977); CRYSTAL GAZING (UK, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1982); BAD SISTER, THE (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1983); FRIDA KAHLO AND TINA MODOTTI (AT, Laura Mulvey / Peter Wollen, 1982)
Summary: Interview with Laura Mulvey discussing the creative progression of her works with Peter Wollen.
Notes: Ill.

Call No: 792 SCR
Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: ix, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SCRIPTS; INDEPENDENT FILMS; MULVEY, LAURA; WOLLEN, PETER; SNOW, MICHAEL; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; FRIEDRICH, SU; ONO, YOKO; GREAVES, WILLIAM; BENNING, JAMES; ROSE, PETER; FISHER, MORGAN; FLEMING, ANN MARIE; RAINER, YVONNE; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; REASSEMBLAGE (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1983); NAKED SPACES (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985); PRIVILEGE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1990); NEW SHOES : AN INTERVIEW IN EXACTLY 5 MINUTES (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1990); YOU TAKE CARE NOW (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1989); SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM : TAKE ONE (US, William Greaves, 1991 [prod.1967]); ZORNS LEMMA (US, Hollis Frampton, 1970); POETIC JUSTICE (US, Hollis Frampton, 1972); GLORIA! (US, Hollis Frampton, 1979); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977); GRAND OPERA (US, James Benning, 1979); HIM AND ME (GW, James Benning, 1982); SO IS THIS (CN, Michael Snow, 1982); PLEASURES OF THE TEXT (US, Peter Rose, 1985); SECONDARY CURRENTS (US, Peter Rose, 1983); STANDARD GAUGE (US, Morgan Fisher, 1985?); GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (US, Su Friedrich, 1983); SINK OR SWIM (US, Su Friedrich, 1981)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339)
ISBN: 0520080246 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520080254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 9335490

Call No: 451-02 FIS
Author: Fischer, Lucy
Place: Basingstoke
Publisher: Macmillan Education
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY; ROMANTIC FILMS; MUSICALS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; DOUBLES IN FILMS; TWINS IN FILMS; ROSE, KATHY; GORRIS, MARLEEN; FLICKORNA (SW, Mai Zetterling, 1968); TAKE OFF (US, Gunvor Nelson, 1973); MITTEN INS HERZ (GW, Doris Dorrie, 1983); RECITAL (?, Stephanie Beroes, 1978); DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (US, Dorothy Arzner, 1940); COBRA WOMAN (US, Robert Siodmak, 1943); ANNEES 80, LES (FR/BE/SZ, Chantal Akerman, 1983); STOLEN LIFE, A (UK, Paul Czinner, 1939); DARK MIRROR, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946); BAD SISTER, THE (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1983); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977); DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); SCHWESTERN, ODER DIE BALANCE DES GLUCKS (GW, Margarethe von Trotta, 1979); RICH AND FAMOUS (US, George Cukor, 1981); GIRL FRIENDS (US, Claudia Weill, 1978); SOTTO...SOTTO...STRAPAZZATO DA ANOMALA PASSIONE (IT, Lina Wertmuller, 1984); LIANNA (US, John Sayles, 1983); VIOLETTE NOZIERE (FR/CN, Claude Chabrol, 1978); MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN, THE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1985)
Notes: Cinema films. Women directors (BNB/PRECIS); Cinema films. - Feminist viewpoints (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0333480600 (cased) : ¦30.00; 0333480619 (pbk.) : ¦8.95
LON: bnb33348060; 6147621

Call No: 67(04) MUL
Author: Mulvey, Laura
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xvi, 201 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; PERCEPTION; WOMEN IN FILMS; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; SIRK, DOUGLAS; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977)
Notes: Includes bibliographies
ISBN: 0253362261; 0253204941 (pbk.)
LON: 88009627; 5820595
Contents: I. ICONOCLASM -- 1. The spectacle is vulnerable: Miss World 1970 -- 2. Fears, fantasies and the male unconsious or 'You don't know what is happening, do you Mr. Jones?' -- 3. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema -- II. MELODRAMA -- 4. Afterthoughts on 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the sun (1946) -- 5. Notes on Sirk and melodrama -- 6. Fassbinder and Sirk -- 7. Images of women, images of sexuality: some films by J. L. Godard -- 8. Melodrama inside and outside the house -- III. ON THE MARGINS -- 9. Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- IV. Avant-Garde -- 10. Film, feminism and the avant-garde -- 11. Dialogue with spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin -- 12. 'Magnificent obsession': an introduction to the work of five photographers -- 13. Impending time: Mary Kelly's Corpus -- V. BOUNDARIES -- 14. Changes: thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- 15. The Oedipus myth: beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx