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This volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional position as a director of women’s films.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller 1
Part I. Influences and Interlocutors
1. Lesbian Reverie:
Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White 31
2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of
Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda 51
3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon 72
4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller 91
5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”:
Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller 111
Part II. Intersections and Interventions
6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist
Poison / Jess Issacharoff 137
7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on
Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery 158
8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis 173
9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in
Safe,
Carol, and
Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai 200
Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality
10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in
Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich 221
11. It's Not TV, It's
Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies 243
12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins 256
13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika 281
14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis 299
Filmography 317
References 321
Contributors 341
Index 345
A propos de l'auteur
Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of
The X-Files.
Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of
Todd Haynes: Interviews.
