[ecrea] Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Women's Cinema, World Cinema

Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Patricia White



   "Women's Cinema, World Cinema is an exciting book for the 
connections that Patricia White expertly draws and explicates between 
text and context, auteur and society, national and global. Her knowledge 
of the particularities of individual directors and national cinemas is 
remarkable, as is her familiarity with their relevant histories and 
critical literatures. Women's Cinema, World Cinema is a major work that 
will transform how these films and filmmakers are viewed and studied."— 
B. Ruby Rich, author of New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut



"Women's Cinema, World Cinema is the first book to offer a truly 
broad—dare I say global—perspective on the practices of feminist 
filmmaking as they have developed in the twenty-first century. Its 
balance of breadth and specificity makes it unique, and one of its 
strengths is Patricia White's willingness to step out of the narrow 
confines that have for too long shaped various constituencies in film 
studies. Women's Cinema, World Cinema provides exactly the context and 
the theoretical questioning that film studies needs."— Judith Mayne, 
author of Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture



     In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the 
dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by 
highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around 
the world:  Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, 
Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a 
globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors 
to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and 
politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. 
Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a 
variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both 
implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, 
genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema 
revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision 
of global media culture.



Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore 
College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and 
Lesbian Representability, coauthor of The Film Experience, and coeditor 
of Critical Visions in Film Theory. She has worked extensively with 
Women Make Movies and the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and 
Media Studies.



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Recycled Stars

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

Mary R. Desjardins



    "Recycled Stars is one of the fullest examinations of stardom that 
we have, and it makes a significant contribution to star studies and to 
broader considerations of film history and the use of primary sources in 
writing that history. Mary R. Desjardins makes innovative connections 
between media practices, from the film industry to television, tabloid 
journalism, and the legal system."— Eric Smoodin, author of Regarding 
Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960



   "Deftly synthesizing material ranging from fan magazines to cultural 
theory, Mary Desjardins's Recycled Stars offers a valuable contribution 
to star studies, gender studies, and media history alike with its 
dynamic exploration of female film star images regenerated for the small 
and its argument about the female star as a privileged commodity within 
media industries and the social imaginary."— Christine Becker, author of 
It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television



         The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a 
devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many 
aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In 
Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, 
ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in 
television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central 
to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures 
evoke in their audiences’ psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and 
return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille 
Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O’Hara’s 
high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine Confidential, to 
the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers, 
video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female 
stars’ resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their 
waning images across emerging media.



Mary R. Desjardins is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies 
at Dartmouth College. She is the coeditor of Dietrich Icon, also 
published by Duke University Press.



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