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Shopping Around

Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure

By: Hilary Radner

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Shopping Around

Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure

By: Hilary Radner

Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined, exposing the fact that women "read" within a complex and conflicted cultural arena characterized by a significant intertextuality that multiply defines "femininity." Shopping Around raises these issues in the context of everyday cultural practices such as applying make-up, reading magazines, watching television, and working-out, providing a unique introduction to postmodern feminist and cultural theory.

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Routledge

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1136039422

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9781136039423

The New Woman's Film

Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

By: Hilary Radner

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The New Woman's Film

Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

By: Hilary Radner

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman’s film? Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of films, often from the independent sector, that do not sit comfortably in either the category of popular culture or that of high art––films that are perhaps the corollary of the middle-brow novel, or "smart-chick flicks". This book seeks to fill this void by focusing on the steady stream of films about and for women that emerge out of independent American and European cinema, and that are designed to address an international female audience. The new woman's film as a genre includes narratives with strong ties to the woman’s film of classical Hollywood while constituting a new distinctive cycle of female-centered films that in many ways continue the project of second-wave feminism, albeit in a modified form. Topics addressed include: The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995); the feature-length films of Nicole Holofcener, 1996-2013; the film roles of Tilda Swinton; Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008); Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013); Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012), Belle (Amma Asante, 2013), Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015) and Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel, 2013-).

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Taylor & Francis

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1317286480

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9781317286486

Neo-Feminist Cinema

Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

By: Hilary Radner

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Neo-Feminist Cinema

Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

By: Hilary Radner

What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on consumer culture within films made for women. By exploring a number of representative "girly films," including Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde, Maid in Manhattan, The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City: The Movie, Radner proposes that rather than being "post-feminist," as is usually assumed, such films are better described as "neo-feminist." Examining their narrative format, as it revolves around the story of an ambitious unmarried woman who defines herself through consumer culture as much as through work or romance, Radner argues that these films exemplify neo-liberalist values rather than those of feminism. As such, Neo-Feminist Cinema offers a new explanation as to why feminist-oriented scholars and audiences who are seeking more than "labels and love" from their film experience have viewed recent "girly films" as a betrayal of second-wave feminism, and why, on the other hand, such films have proven to be so successful at the box office.

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493

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Routledge

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1136995994

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9781136995996

The New Woman's Film

Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

By: Hilary Radner

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Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

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342

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1317286472

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9781317286479

Raymond Bellour

Cinema and the Moving Image

By: Hilary Radner

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Cinema and the Moving Image

By: Hilary Radner

Istanbul's AemberlitaAY HamamA provides a case study for the cultural, social and economic functions of Turkish bathhouses over time

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474422918

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9781474422918

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

By: Hilary Neroni

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Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

By: Hilary Neroni

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 offers a concise introduction to feminist film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Agnes Varda's critically acclaimed 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7. Hilary Neroni employs the methodology of looking for a feminist alternative among female-oriented films. Through three key concepts-identification, framing the woman's body, and the female auteur-Neroni lays bare the debates and approaches within the vibrant history of feminist film theory, providing a point of entry to feminist film theory from its inception to today. Picking up one of the currents in feminist film theory - that of looking for feminist alternatives among female-oriented films - Neroni traces feminist responses to the contradictions inherent in most representations of women in film, and she details how their responses have intervened in changing what we see on the screen.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501313711

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9781501313714

Feminist Film Theory and Cl�o from 5 to 7

By: Hilary Neroni

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Feminist Film Theory and Cl�o from 5 to 7

By: Hilary Neroni

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cl�o from 5 to 7 offers a concise introduction to feminist film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Agnes Varda's critically acclaimed 1962 film Cl�o from 5 to 7. Hilary Neroni employs the methodology of looking for a feminist alternative among female-oriented films. Through three key concepts-identification, framing the woman's body, and the female auteur-Neroni lays bare the debates and approaches within the vibrant history of feminist film theory, providing a point of entry to feminist film theory from its inception to today. Picking up one of the currents in feminist film theory - that of looking for feminist alternatives among female-oriented films - Neroni traces feminist responses to the contradictions inherent in most representations of women in film, and she details how their responses have intervened in changing what we see on the screen.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501313681

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The Subject of Torture

Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film

By: Hilary Neroni

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The Subject of Torture

Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film

By: Hilary Neroni

Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases film and television studies' singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it.

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Columbia University Press

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0231539142

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9780231539142

Raymond Bellour

Cinema and the Moving Image

By: Hilary Radner

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Cinema and the Moving Image

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Istanbul's Ã++emberlitaÅY HamamÄ± provides a case study for the cultural, social and economic functions of Turkish bathhouses over time.

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Edinburgh University Press

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147442290X

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9781474422901

Raymond Bellour

Cinema and the Moving Image : with Selections from an Interview with Raymond Bellour

By: Hilary Radner,Alistair Fox

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Raymond Bellour

Cinema and the Moving Image : with Selections from an Interview with Raymond Bellour

By: Hilary Radner,Alistair Fox

Providing a clear, systematic account of the evolution of Bellour's thought on the nature of cinematic representation, the impact of digital technology and the response of the spectator, this is an essential guide to the work of a major contemporary thinker.

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1474444768

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9781474444767

Book's by Hilary Radner

Shopping Around

Shopping Around

The New Woman's Film

The New Woman's Film

Neo-Feminist Cinema

Neo-Feminist Cinema

The New Woman's Film

The New Woman's Film

Raymond Bellour

Raymond Bellour

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Feminist Film Theory and Cl�o from 5 to 7

Feminist Film Theory and Cl�o from 5 to 7

The Subject of Torture

The Subject of Torture

Raymond Bellour

Raymond Bellour

Raymond Bellour

Raymond Bellour

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