Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (Contemporary Film and Television Series) - Softcover

Christina Lane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814329225 ISBN 13: 9780814329221

Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Feminist Hollywood examines the differences between commercial cinema and counter cinema by focusing on the work of contemporary women directors who have entered Hollywood from the realm of independent filmmaking. Christina Lane compares their early documentaries or avant-garde films with their more mainstream endeavors as she explores the possibilities and limits of feminist expression within the male-dominated industry of commercial filmmaking.

Feminist Hollywood incorporates interviews with directors Susan Seidelman, Martha Coolidge, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie Borden, Darnell Martin, and Tamra Davis in an attempt to bridge the "theory gap" that often excludes women's professional experiences and makes false assumptions about how the
industry operates. Lane balances these firsthand accounts with cultural theory and an understanding of the current film industry, in which the line between commercial and independent filmmaking has become blurred.
The timely and comprehensive nature of this volume will make it a welcome addition to the bookshelves of film scholars and amateur movie buffs alike.

About this title

Book Description:

Feminist Hollywood examines the differences between commercial cinema and counter cinema by focusing on the work of contemporary women directors who have entered Hollywood from the realm of independent filmmaking.

About the Author:

Christina Lane is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami, where she also directs the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies. She teaches courses on film history, women and media, and directors. Her scholarship focuses on silent cinema, classic Hollywood, and contemporary American independent film.
Dr. Lane is the author of Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (Wayne State UP, 2000) and Magnolia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). She has published essays in numerous scholarly journals as well as Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on the War (Cambridge Scholars, 2007), Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema, (Routledge, 2011),  Hitchcock and Adaptation: From Script to Screen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Indie Reframed: Women and Contemporary American Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0814329225
• ISBN 13: 9780814329221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280