And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

Smelik, A.

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-05-27

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333920411

DOI: 10.1057/9780333994702

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219