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And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .
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About the author
ANNEKE SMELIK studied English and film theatre studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and received her PhD in film studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is lecturer in film and new media at the University of Nijmegen and has published widely on film, video and popular culture; she is co-editor of Women's Studies and Culture: a Feminist Introduction.
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Book Title: And the Mirror Cracked
Book Subtitle: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory
Authors: Anneke Smelik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333994702
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-92041-1Published: 27 May 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-99470-2Published: 27 May 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 219
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Screen Studies, Feminism, Film History, Film Theory