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Title: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell ISBN: 0-226-31885-0 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I remember this book from high school
Comment: I was in the 11th grade at the time and I was just getting immersed in my fascination with movies and film theory. I read every book I could find on film studies.
That is when I stumbled upon this book (first edition) in my school's library. After reading this book, I never looked at the history of films, film themes, etc. in quite the same way.
As the years went by, I had read other film theory books that dealt with femininity and feminist thought, but this one always remained my favorite. So when the opportunity presented itself where I could add this book to my personal film library I was more than glad to.
I think I like this book so much because it introduced me to a series of films that while important in the women's studies and cinema may have been forgotten in the annuls of overall film theory and criticism. One outstanding example is "Letter from an Unknown Woman." The depth with which Ms. Haskell discusses this film immediately made me want to go out and see the film; and indeed I did.
I highly recommend this book not just to read but as an addition to any film lovers' library.
Rating: 4
Summary: DON'T LET THE TITLE PUT YOU OFF!
Comment: --there is absolutely nothing polemical or fanatical about this book, which is for film lovers--not just feminists. It is one of the best books on FILM (not just women in film) I've ever read, up there with Stanley Cavell's "Pursuits of Happiness," but much more direct and down-to-earth. Haskell is a fiercely smart, wickedly funny, and casually erudite critic with many extremely sharp observations. She's arguably both a better belles lettresist and a better critic than her (I believe???) one-time husband Andrew Sarris, a better-known and more prolific film critic. It's also hard to argue with her basic thesis: that the portrayal of women in film was better, not worse, in the studio era and prior to the sexual revolution--although this stands received film and feminist history alike on their heads. Haskell is a rare marvel and model: a feminist aesthete who is able to put art before politics without denigrating the importance of the latter. Unlike, say, Camille Paglia, she neither denies nor quasi-celebrates the misogyny of great or simply entertaining films, yet neither does she make political correctness a criterion of artistic achievement or see misogyny where none exists. On the contrary, some of the best passages of the book are accounts of the strong and complex female characters of directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Karl-Theodor Dreyer, and Howard Hawks, among others. A totally engaging blend of classical liberalism and belles lettres/punchy journalism.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptionally thought-provoking!
Comment: Along with Susan Douglas's work, Growing Up Female in the Mass Media, this book is one of the most honest and clearly organized arguments about the way women are depicted in film. For anyone who wants to see what women are screaming about...this book will wake you up. Haskell does a fascinating job of expressing (and cleverly) what has been done to women in the media...how they've been portrayed and how they've been made to be prostrate creatures in film. If you buy it, you'll obsessively begin to notice how true this stuff is on your television set, in your films...everywhere in our society!
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Title: A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 by Jeanine Basinger ISBN: 0819562912 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Issues in Feminist Film Criticism by Patricia Erens ISBN: 0253206103 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.59 |
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Title: Complicated Women : Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick LaSalle ISBN: 0312284314 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 19 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Critical Approaches to Writing About Film by John E. Moscowitz ISBN: 0130837075 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.60 |
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Title: Imitation of Life (Rutgers Films in Print, Vol 16) by Lucy Fischer, Douglas Sirk ISBN: 0813516455 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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