| Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Contributor(s): Harper, Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826447333 ISBN-13: 9780826447333 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $79.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: Drawing on newly discovered material, Sue Harper provides a survey of the ways women have been represented in British cinema from the 1930s to the present day. She also analyzes the impact women have had on the industry and charts the difficulties they encountered and the successes they achieved. Lively, funny, and often confrontational, Harper criticizes many established opinions about women and the cinema. This book's broad overview of film history combined with its close analysis of key films will be helpful for undergraduates. General readers will be intrigued by the questions raised about the relationship between gender and creativity, and Harper's fresh look at the issues of sexuality, stardom, and artistic constraints. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Women's Studies - Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications |
| Dewey: 384.808 |
| LCCN: 99086631 |
| Series: Rethinking British Cinema (Continuum, Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.37" W x 8.48" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book takes a broad perspective and analyses the ways in which the British film industry has dealt with women and their creativity from 1930 to the present. The first part of the book deals comprehensively with different historical periods in British film culture, showing how the 'agency' of production company, director, distribution company or scriptwriter can bring about new patterns of female stereotyping. The second part looks at the input of women workers into the film process. It assesses the work of women in a variety of roles: directors such as Wendy Toye and Sally Potter, producers such as Betty Box, scriptwriters such as Clemence Dane and Muriel Box, costume designers such as Shirley Russell and Jocelyn Rickards, and editors and art directors. This is a polemical book which is written in a lively and often confrontational manner. It uses fresh archival material and takes energetic issue with those explanatory models of film analysis which impose easy answers onto complex material. |