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Reference Literature to Woman´s Film

  • Lucy Fischer: Shot/Countershot. Film Tradition and Women´s Cinema. Princeton 1989
  • Mimi White: "Representing Romance: Reading/Writing/Fantasy and the `Liberated´ Heroine of Recent Hollywood Films." In: Cinema Journal 28:3 (1989), pp.41-56
  • Teresa de Lauretis: "Guerrilla in the midst: women´s cinema in the 80s." In: Screen 31:1 (1990), pp.6-25
  • Mary Beth Haralovich: "The Proletarian Woman´s Film of the 1930s. Contending with Censorship and Entertainment." In: Screen 31 (1990)
  • Lea Jacobs: The Wages of Sin. Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942. Madison 1991 - (essays/books by L.Jacobs)
  • Scott Simmon: "The Female of the Species. D.W.Griffith: Father of the Woman´s Film." In: Film Quarterly 46:2 (1992-93)
  • Jeanine Basinger: A Woman´s View. How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960. New York 1993
  • Ben Singer: "Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly." In: R.Abel (Ed.): Silent Film, London 1996, pp.163-193
  • Pam Cook: "No Fixed Address: The Women´s Picture from Outrage to Blue Steel." In: S.Neale / M.Smith (Eds.): Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, London & New York 1998
  • Karen Hollinger: In the Company of Women. Contemporary Female Friendship Films. Minneapolis 1998
  • Diane Negra: "Romance and/as tourism: heritage whiteness and the (inter)national imaginary in the new woman´s film." In: M.Tinkcom / A.Villarejo (Eds.): Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 2001, pp.82-97
  • Alison M.Butler: Women´s Cinema. The Contested Screen. London 2002
  • Karen Hollinger: "From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Woman´s Film." In: S.Neale (Ed.): Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, London 2002, pp.77-90
  • Marc O´Day: "Beauty in Motion: Gender, Spectacle and Action Babe Cinema." In: Y.Tasker (Ed.): Action and Adventure Cinema, London 2004, pp.201-218
  • Framework 46:1 (2005): Dossier on Cinephilia and Women´s Cinema in the 1920s, special issue ed.by C.Russell and R.Maule
  • Geetha Ramanathan: Feminist Auteurs. Reading Women's Films. London: Wallflower, 2006
  • Roberta Garrett: Postmodern Chick Flicks. The Return of the Woman's Film. New York: Palgrave, 2007
see also:

OV: Gender

Melodrama

Film Noir

Point of View

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