Sexual Politics and Narrative Film

Hollywood and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-07605-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood, well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited, probes the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, marriage and the couple, romantic love, and representations of women, race, and gender in contemporary films from the United States, Europe, and Japan. He looks closely at the works of Leo McCarey and Jacques Rivette, Ozu's "Noriko Trilogy," and the recent Generation X films Before Sunrise and The Doom Generation. In a chapter on fascism and cinema that juxtaposes Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Alain Resnais's Night and Fog, Wood finds that what is most important is not these films' record of another time and place but "the light they can throw on our contemporary cultural situation." Wood's central concern in these chapters is the ways in which the films relate to sexual politics and the organization within our culture of gender and sexuality. Seeing humanity as a "battleground" of a struggle between forces for Life and those of Death, Wood holds out hope for a joining of the forces of feminism, antiracism, lesbian and gay rights, and environmentalism necessary for authentic movement toward liberation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introductory1. Introduction2. Facisim/CinemaII. Marriage and the Couple3. The Couple and the Other4. Renoir and Mozart5. Resistance to Definition: Ozu's "Noriko" TrilogyIII. The Family6. Leo McCarey and "Family Values"7. Family LoyaltiesIV. Romantic Love8. The Two Gaslights9. Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double NarrativeV. Women Oppression and Transgression10. Three Films of Mizoguchi: Questions of Style and Identification11. Persona RevisitedVI. Race and Gender12. Mandingo: The Vindication of an Abused MasterpieceVII. Toward Liberation13. Narrative Pleasure: Two Films by Jacques Rivette14. Drawing Earl: The Lesson of Life Classes15. Rethinking Romantic Love: Before Sunrise16. Finale: The Doom Generation

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Wood, recently retired as professor of film studies at Atkinson College, York University, Canada, is the author of Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited (both Columbia).