Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Body of Medusa -- China Girls in the Film Laboratory -- Gone Girls of Escamontage -- Gradivan Footsteps in the Film Archive -- Afterword.
Summary:
"Girl Head shows how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art. This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen."--Back cover.
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