Sexual Politics and Narrative Film - Hollywood and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Robin Wood Klappentext One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood! well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited! probes the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema! marriage and the couple! romantic love! and representations of women! race! and gender in contemporary films from the United States! Europe! and Japan. He looks closely at the works of Leo McCarey and Jacques Rivette! Ozu's "Noriko Trilogy!" and the recent Generation X films Before Sunrise and The Doom Generation. In a chapter on fascism and cinema that juxtaposes Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Alain Resnais's Night and Fog! Wood finds that what is most important is not these films' record of another time and place but "the light they can throw on our contemporary cultural situation." Wood's central concern in these chapters is the ways in which the films relate to sexual politics and the organization within our culture of gender and sexuality. Seeing humanity as a "battleground" of a struggle between forces for Life and those of Death! Wood holds out hope for a joining of the forces of feminism! antiracism! lesbian and gay rights! and environmentalism necessary for authentic movement toward liberation. Zusammenfassung Wood explores the relationships between narrative form and style and sexual politics! probing the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema! marriage and the couple! romantic love! and representations of women! race and gender in films from the United States! Europe! and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Introductory1. Introduction2. Facisim/CinemaII. Marriage and the Couple3. The Couple and the Other4. Renoir and Mozart5. Resistance to Definition: Ozu's "Noriko" TrilogyIII. The Family6. Leo McCarey and "Family Values"7. Family LoyaltiesIV. Romantic Love8. The Two Gaslights9. Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double NarrativeV. Women -- Oppression and Transgression10. Three Films of Mizoguchi: Questions of Style and Identification11. Persona RevisitedVI. Race and Gender12. Mandingo: The Vindication of an Abused MasterpieceVII. Toward Liberation13. Narrative Pleasure: Two Films by Jacques Rivette14. Drawing Earl: The Lesson of Life Classes15. Rethinking Romantic Love: Before Sunrise16. Finale: The Doom Generation ...

Product details

• Authors: Robin Wood
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.1998
• EAN: 9780231076050
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07605-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Japan, Europe, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism