The
new woman's film
femme-centric movies for smart chicks
Radner Fox, Hilary Ann
creator
text
bibliography
nyu
2017
monographic
eng
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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
Hilary Radner.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women in motion pictures
Mujeres en el cine
Motion pictures for women
PN 1995.9 R129n 2017
791.43/6522
9781138186811 (pbk.)
1138186813 (pbk.)
2016038505
DLC
161118
20251125094150.0
19379285
eng