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The new woman's film : femme-centric movies for smart chicks / Hilary Radner.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2017Description: xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138186811 (pbk.)
  • 1138186813 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6522
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9 R129n 2017
Contents:
Introduction : what do women watch? After the woman's picture: the new woman's film and the chick flick The new woman's film in the twenty-first century: the smart-chick film and Rachel getting married (Jonathan Demme, 2008) Anticipating the twenty-first century: "Dirty Harry bathed in a romantic glow?" and The bridges of Madison Country (Clint Eastwood, 1995) Nicole Holofcener as the American female auteur: "keeping it real" walking and talking (1996), Lovely & amazing (2002), Friends with money (2006) Please give (2010), Enough said (2013) Stardom, celebrity and the new woman's film: Tilda Swinton and the maternal melodrama "winning an Oscar was wasted on me" Oscars for women and the films of Woody Allen: Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) The girl crush: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013), "The toast of Telluride" Diversity, the female biopic and the new woman's film: Belle (Amma Asante, 2013) A past with a future, the ongoing evolution of the new woman's film: From top of the lake (Sundance Channel, 2013) to Fifty shades of grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015) Coda: feminism redux
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995.9 R129n 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000190522

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : what do women watch?
After the woman's picture: the new woman's film and the chick flick
The new woman's film in the twenty-first century: the smart-chick film and Rachel getting married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
Anticipating the twenty-first century: "Dirty Harry bathed in a romantic glow?" and The bridges of Madison Country (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Nicole Holofcener as the American female auteur: "keeping it real" walking and talking (1996), Lovely & amazing (2002), Friends with money (2006) Please give (2010), Enough said (2013)
Stardom, celebrity and the new woman's film: Tilda Swinton and the maternal melodrama "winning an Oscar was wasted on me"
Oscars for women and the films of Woody Allen: Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
The girl crush: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013), "The toast of Telluride"
Diversity, the female biopic and the new woman's film: Belle (Amma Asante, 2013)
A past with a future, the ongoing evolution of the new woman's film: From top of the lake (Sundance Channel, 2013) to Fifty shades of grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015)
Coda: feminism redux

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