Directed by Dorothy Arzner - Brossura

Mayne, Judith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0253208963 ISBN 13: 9780253208965

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history—the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career—her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure from Hollywood in 1943—is documented, with particular attention to Arzner's roles as "star-maker" and "woman's director." In Part Two, Mayne analyzes a number of Arzner's films and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them, from the women's communities central to Dance, Girl, Dance and The Wild Party to critiques of the heterosexual couple in Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife. Part Three treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

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L'autore:

JUDITH MAYNE, Professor of French and Women's Studies at Ohio State University, is the author of Cinema and Spectatorship, The Woman at the Keyhole, Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film, and Private Novels, Public Films.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

This is the first full-length study of the woman who has always been the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0253208963
• ISBN 13: 9780253208965
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210