The Woman At The Keyhole

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253115043

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The Woman at the Keyhole by Judith Mayne Pdf

"[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -- SubStance "... this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's filmmaking on the main stage.... serves at once as introduction and original contribution to the debates structuring the field. Erudite but never obscure, effectively argued but not polemical, The Woman at the Keyhole should prove to be a valuable text for courses on women and cinema." -- The Independent When we imagine a "woman" and a "keyhole," it is usually a woman on the other side of the keyhole, as the proverbial object of the look, that comes to mind. In this work the author is not necessarily reversing the conventional image, but rather asking what happens when women are situated on both sides of the keyhole. In all of the films discussed, the threshold between subject and object, between inside and outside, between virtually all opposing pairs, is a central figure for the reinvention of cinematic narrative.

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253337194

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The Woman at the Keyhole by Judith Mayne Pdf

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703008

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The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King Pdf

Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet--Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler--encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two...and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a "skin-man" preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day's trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. "A person's never too old for stories," Roland says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them." And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us. King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland's world and testimony to the power of Stephen King's storytelling magic.

Author : Colleen Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172391486X

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The Woman Through the Keyhole by Colleen Palmer Pdf

"I want the reader of my story to bear in mind that I had no devious forethoughts of lighting fire to the house. The act of which only administered when there was no other option to quell the terrifying images and aberrations that I've had to endure while living in that horrific nightmare. Perhaps if I were to tell you just some of my tale you'll realize that there was no other choice..."This short story tells the tale of woman who buys a mysterious house with a locked bedroom and her horrifying experience after she looks through its keyhole.

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253208963

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Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne Pdf

Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history—the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career—her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure from Hollywood in 1943—is documented, with particular attention to Arzner's roles as "star-maker" and "woman's director." In Part Two, Mayne analyzes a number of Arzner's films and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them, from the women's communities central to Dance, Girl, Dance and The Wild Party to critiques of the heterosexual couple in Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife. Part Three treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

Author : Jeongwon Joe,Rose Theresa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136534072

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Between Opera and Cinema by Jeongwon Joe,Rose Theresa Pdf

Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.

Author : Jack Halberstam
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002703

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Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam Pdf

In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity; considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities; and explores issues of transsexuality among “transgender dykes”—lesbians who pass as men—and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of “lesbian” a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Featuring a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity remains as insightful, timely, and necessary as ever.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797971

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The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates decades ago—were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends’ weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men. But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.

Author : Mrs. M. Keary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590555169

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A Peep Through the Keyhole; Or, Matt Tuffin's Troubles. [With Illustrations.] by Mrs. M. Keary Pdf

Author : Suzanna Danuta Walters
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520915682

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Material Girls by Suzanna Danuta Walters Pdf

Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the major theories, debates, and concepts in this new and exciting field. With numerous case studies and illustrations, Walters situates feminist cultural theory against the background of the women's movement and media studies. Using examples from film, television, advertising, and popular discourse, she looks at topics such as the "male gaze," narrative theory, and new work on female "ways of seeing" and spectatorship. Throughout, Walters provides a historically grounded account of representations of women in popular culture while critiquing the dominance of psychoanalytic and postmodern analyses. The first comprehensive guide to the approaches and debates that make up this growing field, Material Girls belongs on the shelf of every cultural critic and savvy student today.

Author : Linda Ruth Williams
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325084

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Sex in the Head by Linda Ruth Williams Pdf

Author : Jennifer M. Bean,Diane Negra
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822383840

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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean,Diane Negra Pdf

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies. While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema illuminates the many questions that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism. Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles, technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of topics—from the dangerous sexuality of the urban flâneuse to the childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films—looking along the way at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman, alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive exotic. Contributors. Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie, Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar, Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White, Zhang Zhen

Author : Gertrude Jerdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : OXFORD:590538469

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Keyhole country; a story about things you would certainly see if you went through the keyhole by Gertrude Jerdon Pdf

Author : Jane Gaines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226278743

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Fire and Desire by Jane Gaines Pdf

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Film DatesIntroduction - The "Race" in Race Movies1. "Green Like Me"2. Desiring Others3. Race Movies: All-Black Everything4. World-Improving Desires5. Fire and Desire6. The Body's Story7. Race/Riot/CinemaConclusion - Mixed-Race MoviesNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Donna M. Campbell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820341729

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Bitter Tastes by Donna M. Campbell Pdf

Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. Campbell further places these women writers in a broader context by tracing their relationship to early film, which, like naturalism, claimed the ability to represent elemental social truths through a documentary method. Women had a significant presence in early film and constituted 40 percent of scenario writers--in many cases they also served as directors and producers. Campbell explores the features of naturalism that assumed special prominence in women's writing and early film and how the work of these early naturalists diverged from that of their male counterparts in important ways.