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Title:

Red velvet seat : women's writings on the first fifty years of cinema / edited by Antonia Lant, with Ingrid Periz.

Publisher:

Verso,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xxiv, 872 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women.
Féminisme et cinéma.
Cinéma--Aspect social.
Femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique.
Filmkunst.
Filmindustrie.
Vrouwen.

Other Authors:

Lant, Antonia, 1956-
Periz, Ingrid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [808]-864) and indexes.

Contents:

Part One: The red velvet seat -- Introduction -- Seeing or being seen -- Touring the audience -- Why we go to the movies -- The spectatrix -- Part Two: What was cinema? --Introduction -- Film aesthetics and the other arts -- Part Three: Cinema as power -- Introduction -- Futurology -- Captive minds -- Enlightenment without tears -- Means of control -- Part Four: The critic's hat -- Introduction -- Naming the object -- Reviewing -- The star -- Film as the national barometer -- In the shadow of war -- The limits of criticism -- Part Five: Cinema as a job -- Introduction -- A job for whom? -- The actress and adventuress -- The screenwriter -- The director -- Working in the auditorium.

ISBN:

1859847226 (pbk.)
9781859847220 (pbk.)
1844671194 (hbk.)
9781844671199 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007270933

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)