Film Studies

Women in Contemporary World Cinema

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Edited by Alexandra Heidi Karriker

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > World

Keywords

world cinema, women

Publishing date

2002

Publisher

Peter Lang

Collection

Framing Film

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 199 pages
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-8204-5235-1
978-0-8204-5235-7

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Book Presentation:
This book explores the role of women in mainstream and independent films, television series, and advertising from Russia, France, Great Britain, Ivory Coast, Paraguay, the United States, and New Zealand. Stylistic, contextual, and historical analyses provide the bases of investigations of myths, politics, women and violence, and theoretical issues.

About the Author:
The Editor: Alexandra Heidi Karriker, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Film, and Women’s Studies at the University of Oklahoma, received her Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Brown University. Her articles, translations, and reviews have appeared widely in professional journals and in collections. Her monograph, Turmoil on the Screen: Shifting Perspectives in Soviet and Post-Communist Cinema, was published in 1993.

Press Reviews:
«After a superb analytical preface, Alexandra Heidi Karriker presents ten sterling essays on the representation of women in world cinema from the regional and international women and film conferences held at the University of Oklahoma during the 1990s. It is unlike other film studies anthologies, which limit themselves to a genre, an ‘auteur’, or a national cinema and tend to be narrow in scope or geographical region. Karriker’s book focuses on a specific theme – women in film – and expands its range to incorporate essays from several world film scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The result is most felicitous, for it provides us with a multiplicity of cultural views – analytical, feminist, psychological, political, postcolonial, and queer – on how women are portrayed in film and gives the reader a sound and unbiased sample of important mainstream and independent films. ‘Film Studies’ is an essential book for all scholars in the humanities.» (A. Robert Lauer, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, Film and Video Studies, The University of Oklahoma)

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