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03882aam a2200481 i 4500 001 0B92062A177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 191107t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019049409 020 $a 0231189516 020 $a 9780231189514 020 $a 0231189508 020 $a 9780231189507 035 $a (OCoLC)1129392257 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d MNG $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.W6 $b C86 2020 082 00 $a 791.43/6522 $2 23 100 1 $a Cummins, Kathleen, $e author. 245 10 $a Herstories on screen : $b feminist subversions of frontier myths / $c Kathleen Cummins. 264 1 $a New York : $b Wallflower Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 323 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries' popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won new access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films challenged traditionally male genres like the Western. Instead of reinforcing the myths of nationhood often portrayed in such films-invariably featuring a lone white male hero pitted against the "savage" and "uncivilized" native terrain-these filmmakers constructed counternarratives centering on women and marginalized communities. In place of rugged cowboys violently removing indigenous peoples to make the frontier safe for their virtuous wives and daughters, these filmmakers told the stories of colonial and postcolonial societies from a female and/or subaltern point of view. Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers including Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Merata Mita, Tracey Moffat, and Anne Wheeler. She reveals how they skillfully deploy genre tropes and popular storytelling conventions in order to critique master narratives of feminine domesticity and purity and depict women and subaltern people performing acts of agency and resistance. Cummins details the ways in which second-wave feminist theory and aesthetics informed these filmmakers' efforts to debunk idealized Anglo-Saxon femininity and motherhood and lay bare gendered and sexual violence and colonial oppression"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-303) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Women's Storytelling: Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice -- Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier -- Feminist Symbolic Frontier Landscapes -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Films. 650 0 $a Feminist films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Feminism and motion pictures. 650 0 $a Women in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $x In motion pictures. 650 0 $a Motion pictures and women. 650 0 $a Women in the motion picture industry. 650 0 $a Women motion picture producers and directors. 650 7 $a Feminism and motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922742 650 7 $a Feminist films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01715726 650 7 $a Motion pictures and women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027425 650 7 $a Women in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177931 650 7 $a Women in the motion picture industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178040 650 7 $a Women motion picture producers and directors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178163 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B92062A177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search