Judith Mayne

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"Woman at the Keyhole lives up to the subtlety, originality, and careful ambiguity of its title. Judith Mayne is exemplary in her ability to analyze 'women's films' within the context of film histories, genres, theories, and contemporary feminist thinking. Balanced and judicious, she nevertheless doesn't flinch from attacking excesses in current theoretical circles, whether it's the valorizing of 'the gaze' or the demonizing of 'essentialism.' This book deserves to become a curriculum standard. - B. Ruby Rich "

"In Order to explore the qustion of the women filmmakers' specificity as distinct from the dominat male models, Judith Myne has set up a careful study of the techniques, themes, and images of both mainstream and avant-garde filmmaking from the origins of cinema to the present. This is a landmark study whose impact on film theory, literary theory, and feminist theory will be formative. - Germaine Bree"… (mehr)