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And the Mirror Cracked

Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

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  • © 1998

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  1. Anneke Smelik
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 1-6

  3. What Meets the Eye: An Overview of Feminist Film Theory

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 7-27

  4. In Pursuit of the Author: On Cinematic Directorship

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 28-55

  5. Silent Violence: On Point of View

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 56-89

  6. And the Mirror Cracked: On Metaphors Of Violence And Resistance

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 90-122

  7. Forces of Subversion: On the Excess of the Image

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 123-151

  8. The Navel of the Film: On the Abject and the Masquerade

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 152-184

  9. Epilogue

    • Anneke Smelik
    Pages 185-187

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 188-219
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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 .

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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