[Commlist] new book: Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality

*Girl Head***

Feminism and Film Materiality

*Genevieve Yue*

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780823289561/girl-head/_**__*

/Girl Head/ shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in 
film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.

For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of 
representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist 
implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip 
itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the 
film image before it enters the realm of representation?

/Girl Head/ explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply 
embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, 
Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film 
laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, 
she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is 
transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book 
develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of 
narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art.

This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a 
persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever 
appears onscreen.

*Genevieve Yue*is an assistant professor of Culture and Media and 
director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, the New 
School. Her essays and criticism have appeared in /October/, /Grey 
Room/, /The Times Literary Supplement/, /Reverse Shot/, /Artforum.com/, 
/Film Comment/, and /Film Quarterly/. She is also an independent film 
programmer and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film 
Seminar.


*Fordham University Press**| 2020 | 240pp | 9780823289561 | PB | £24.99**

*Price subject to change.

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