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Alice Doesnt: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema by Teresa De Lauretis Publisher Comments The title seems appropriate, for not only is the book intended in the same sense as the placard, but both are signs of the same struggle, both are texts of the women's movement. The images or references suggested by the name 'Alice' are many and will... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism by Diane Carson Publisher Comments Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism offers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have made to film studies over the past two decades. Individual chapters present a range of perspectives, from psychoanalytic,... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dread of Difference : Gender and Horror Film (96 Edition) by Barry Keith (ed.) Grant Publisher Comments The Dread of Difference demonstrates that horror is hardly a uniformly masculine discourse. As these essays persuasively show, not only are horror movies about patriarchy and its fear of the feminine, but they also offer feminist critique and pleasure.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Desire to Desire: The Womans Film of the 1940s (Theories of Representation & Difference) by Mary Ann Doane Publisher Comments The Desire to Desire is the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick Lasalle Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, and led unapologetic careers. Before then, women on screen had come in two varieties -- sweet ingenue or vamp... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood by Mollie Gregory Publisher Comments Conventional wisdom has it that women can't work in Hollywood unless they're in front of the camera. And while it's true that female studio heads and major directors are in short supply, it's equally clear that some of the heaviest hitters in Tinseltown... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism by Patricia Erens Synopsis "This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Erens brings together a wide variety of writings and... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism and Film by Maggie Humm Synopsis Feminist theory has been at the forefront of critical analysis for more than two decades. With dazzling insight, Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. Feminism and Film is the first... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching Men and Film (Teaching Film and Media Studies) by Matthew Hall Publisher Comments Examining the changes in male roles, and how these changes are explored in cinema, this book includes frameworks for teaching the topic, and accessible explanations of the cultural and critical background to changes in male roles. It provides in-depth... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Spiral
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Toms Coons Mulattoes Mammies & Bucks 4TH Edition by Donald Bogle Publisher Comments Completely updated to include the entire twentieth century, this new fourth edition covers all the latest directors, stars, and films including Summer of Sam, Jackie Brown, The Best Man, and The Hurricane. From The Birth of a Nation--the groundbreaking... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene by Celine Parr Shimizu Publisher Comments "I find "The Hypersexuality of Race" nothing short of brilliant, a rigorous and galvanizing scholarly endeavor that promises to make an immediate impact on the fields of Asian American studies, feminist theory, theater and performance studies, and film... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image by Harlow Robinson Publisher Comments This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film by Matthew Bernstein Publisher Comments Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical by Steven Cohan Publisher Comments A look at the camp cult appeal of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s to gay men today, along with an historical analysis of the films' production... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $10.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Feminism and Film (Oxford Readings in Feminism) by E Ann Kaplan Publisher Comments This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices from 1973 to the present. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollywood Speaks Out: Pictures That Dared to Protest Real World Issues by Robert L Hilliard Publisher Comments Hollywood Speaks Out explores that rare Hollywood feature that dared to tackle red-hot, social issues whilst American society was gripped by the convulsion and controversy they generated. Explores why Hollywood has always been risk-adverse, and how most... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Sexual Subject: Screen Reader in Sexuality by Screen Publisher Comments indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the collection is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections between debates and inquiries... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video by Glen Mimura About the Author Glen M. Mimura is associate professor of film and media and Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine.... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema by Steven Paul Davies Publisher Comments Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 1960s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 1970s, and the AIDS cinema of the 1980s have given way in... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo Publisher Comments Praised by the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> as "an impressive study" and written with incisive wit and searing perception--the definitive, highly acclaimed landmark work on the portrayal of homosexuality in film.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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