Francophone Women Film Directors: A GuideLike its 1997 predecessor, Francophone Women Film Directors: A New Guide is both a teaching tool and a directory for use by scholars and students of film and literature. Unique among guides dealing with film, both for its breadth and for the very fact that it is devoted exclusively to francophone women throughout the world, most of whom are omitted from other directories and studies, this guide contains listings of some three hundred francophone women filmmakers and their films. Whenever possible, dates, brief biographies, descriptions, and brief critical analyses are included. Themes studied include such subjects as abortion, pornography, prostitution, and mother-daughter relationships. A list of film sources and an extensive bibliography, and an index of geographical subdivisions, maximize the directory's usefulness. |
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Francophone Women Film Directors: A Sequel Janis L. Pallister,Ruth A. Hottell No preview available - 2005 |
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Page 16 - Mineral resources at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century.
Page 6 - to film" means for women a mobility of voice and body, the body not gazed upon, but unsubmissive, retrieving its autonomy and innocence.
Page 24 - ... [This image — reality of my childhood, that of my mother and my aunts, my cousins who were often my age, this scandal that for me as a child was considered normal, here she is at the start of my quest; woman's unique silhouette, gathering in the folds of her drapery-shroud the five hundred million segregated women of the Islamic world; suddenly she is staring at us, but from behind the camera, and through a free hole in a masked face, she is devouring the...
Page 24 - ... folds of her drapery-shroud the five hundred million segregated women of the Islamic world; suddenly she is staring at us, but from behind the camera, and through a free hole in a masked face, she is devouring the world."—Internet (portrait of Djebar on film).