In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)
Neo-Feminist Cinema examines how Hollywood has responded to women’s changing social roles. Radner pays particular attention to how the contemporary wo..
Feminism at the Movies offers an overview of central issues in feminist film criticism by analyzing over twenty popular films produced in the first de..
Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses an often neglected area of gend..
Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew ab..
With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman’s film? Little attention has been paid to the proli..
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular cinema by proposing an approach that comb..
This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and ..
This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relatio..
Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoret..
This comprehensive collection of all new essays assembles major theoretical approaches to cinema, gender, and spectatorship, covering the intersection..