- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Mar 7 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415107253
- ISBN-13: 978-0415107259
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 553 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,546,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wilton, senior lecturer in health and social policy at the University of the West of England, where she also teaches women's studies and lesbian studies, has edited and contributed to the first collection of essays that discusses films by and about lesbians. The writers are academics, filmmakers, and activists who debate and explore both lesbian filmmaking by directors Monika Treut, Andrea Weiss, and Greta Schiller, among others, and lesbian audiences of mainstream Hollywood films like Aliens and Red Sonia. The diverse essays are well documented and incorporate film stills and references. Andrea Weiss's Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film (Viking, 1993), a history of lesbians in film that describes many of the films discussed here, is a valuable companion to Wilton's book. One of the few books written on lesbians and film, this is recommended for academic libraries supporting film studies or women's and gay/lesbian studies departments.?Lisa N. Johnston, Sweet Briar Coll. Lib., Va.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This timely collection illustrates the richness of contemporary lesbian thought. Brilliantly negotiating and opening up a new space within and between feminist and queer theory, it illuminates not just the lesbian representations of recent years, but the centrality of lesbianism to all film images. Encompassing production and reception as well the films in their own right, the whole collection is characterized by clarity and sophistication of thought, enthusiasm and pleasure in film and inspiring intellectual energy..
–Richard Dyer, author of Now You See It
...this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation..
–Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl
...a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large..
–Journal of the History of Sexuality
–Richard Dyer, author of Now You See It
...this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation..
–Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl
...a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large..
–Journal of the History of Sexuality
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The mid- to late 1980s produced conflicting accounts of the impact of the previous two decades of feminism: mainstream commentators pronounced the women's movement dead, while some feminist academics, dismayed by the prominence of discussion of masculinity in women's studies, feared that women's issues would once again be eclipsed, this time by a 'feminism without women'. Read the first page
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The mid- to late 1980s produced conflicting accounts of the impact of the previous two decades of feminism: mainstream commentators pronounced the women's movement dead, while some feminist academics, dismayed by the prominence of discussion of masculinity in women's studies, feared that women's issues would once again be eclipsed, this time by a 'feminism without women'. Read the first page
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