| Sisters on Screen: Siblings in Contemporary Cinema Contributor(s): Rueschmann, Eva (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566397472 ISBN-13: 9781566397476 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: In Sisters on Screen, Eva Rueschmann explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. Drawing on the psychoanalytic concept of inter-subjectivity, this book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge. The book includes in-depth discussions of An Angel at My Table, Double Happiness, Eve's Bayou, Gas Food Lodging, Heavenly Creatures, Little Women, Marianne and Julianne, Paura e amore, Peppermint Soda, The Silence, Sweetie, and Welcome to the Dollhouse. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Women's Studies - Family & Relationships | Siblings |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 99051317 |
| Series: Culture and the Moving Image |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.96" W x 8.98" (0.79 lbs) 221 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history, according to author Eva Rueschmann. Although many of the women-centred films in the last three decades depict the relationship between sisters as a pivotal aspect of a character's psychological development, the now substantial body of feminist film criticism has not taken up this theme in any sustained way. |
