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The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women
Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-837-5 (ebook) 978-1-63353-838-2
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018959944
BISAC category code: BIO022000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
ART057000 ART / Film & Video SOC010000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Printed in the United States of America
Dedicated to all the film lovers, supporters of women in film,
and aspiring filmmakers out there…
Contents
The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
Holly Weaver on La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922)
Sumeyye Korkaya on Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Jenna Ipcar on The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)61
Tomris Laffly on News from Home (1977)
Farran Smith Nehme on Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Amy Nicholson on The Decline Of Western Civilization I & II (1981 & 1988)
Tiffany Vazquez on Paris Is Burning (1991)
Jen Yamato on A League of Their Own (1992)
Roth Cornet on The Piano (1993)
Marya Gates on Little Women (1994)
Piya Sinha-Roy on Clueless (1995)
Jamie Broadnax on Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Monica Castillo on Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Clarke Wolfe on American Psycho (2000)
Jessie Maltin on Songcatcher (2000)
Alana Wulff on Thirteen (2003)
April Wolfe on Innocence (2004)