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Seeing Stars: Female Film Stars and Female Audiences in ...

Seeing Stars: Female Film Stars and Female Audiences in ...

JaeYoon Park

Judith Mayne objects to Dyer's idea by observing that “inconsistency, change and fluctuation are characteristic of star images”7 and thus Mayne questions how unstable and incoherent star images have the potential to reconcile ideological ...
Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Judith Mayne

This is the first full-length study of the woman who has always been the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades.
Cinema and Spectatorship

Cinema and Spectatorship

Judith Mayne

Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies.
The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema

The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema

Judith Mayne

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.
Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Judith Mayne

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat.
Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture

Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture

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In Framed, Judith Mayne, a respected critic whose reach extends from film, literature, and feminism to the culture at large, offers a sustained exploration of feminist approaches to film and mass culture, with a particular focus on how ...
Women and Mass Communications in the 1990's: An ...

Women and Mass Communications in the 1990's: An ...

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Strives to find the blindspots in feminist film theory, offer textual analyses of several films, and make available course files on how to teach feminist films; includes essays by Judith Mayne, B. Ruby Rich, Janet Walker, Laura Mulvey, Jackie Byars ...
Sexuality & Space

Sexuality & Space

Beatriz Colomina

27 But if we turn instead to Judith Mayne's 1976 essay on "King Kong and the Ideology of Spectacle"-in its own way an "Oil Crisis" text, discussing the appeal o £King Kong to American audiences during the Depression-it is possible to see a  ...
Exposing Power, Transforming God: A Process Jewish Feminist ...

Exposing Power, Transforming God: A Process Jewish Feminist ...

Arlette Poland

We now turn to Judith Plaskow, whose passionate and bold voice calls for all Jewish institutions to root out patriarchy entirely. Section 2: Judith Plaskow Introducing Judith Plaskow67 Judith Plaskow is best introduced by her own words. "If one ...
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

Kevin R. Brine

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous.
Christian Names in Local and Family History

Christian Names in Local and Family History

George Redmonds

However, he also left 40s to his god-son Arthur Hawksworth and 20s to each of his god—daughters, Judith Crosland and Judith Johnson.31 The register shows that when they were baptised it was Arthur, not Judith Fenay, who was a ...
Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature

Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature

Anne Quéma

In The Judith Butler Reader, edited by Sara Salih and Judith Butler, 325–56. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. ———. “Competing Universalities.” In Contingency , Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, by Judith Butler,  ...
Korea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society

Korea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society

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... the EU–Korea free trade agreement and reduce the economic benefits that the signatory parties hope to gain from it. In 2006, the European Commission announced a new phase in 114 JUDITH CHERRY JUDITH CHERRY JUDITH CHERRY.
Anodea Judith's Chakra Yoga

Anodea Judith's Chakra Yoga

Anodea Judith

In this long-awaited book by acclaimed chakra expert Anodea Judith, you will learn how to use yoga’s principles and practices to awaken the subtle body of energy and connect with your highest source.
SONNY: Book One in a series of four

SONNY: Book One in a series of four

Danny Falcone

Book One in a series of four Danny Falcone. “What's her name?” Johnny asked “ Judith.” “Ah, you need to go back to the building and yell up to the window Judith Judith where for art thou.” All three men had a good laugh over that.
Good Enough for Judith

Good Enough for Judith

Michael Scott

Can Spider help Judith out of trouble when even her father's money & connections cannot?
Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming ...

Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming ...

Judith Baker Montano

Bestselling author Judith Baker Montano is back with a new comprehensive stitch guide that will take you beyond traditional embroidery.
The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the ...

The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the ...

Judith Wellman

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention Judith Wellman. Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1836—1860 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1976), 3—23; Judith Wellman, Grass Roots Reform in the Burned—over District ...
The Final Encyclopedia, Volume Two of Two

The Final Encyclopedia, Volume Two of Two

Gordon R. Dickson

Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
Judith Baker Montano Teaches You Crazy Quilting

Judith Baker Montano Teaches You Crazy Quilting

Judith Baker Montano

Create your own heirloom crazy quilt with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano.
Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence

Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence

Judith Brook

Judith Brook, Barry Stimmel. occur early at a time when parental influences play a major role. ... References. 1. Halpern M. Deaths from narcotic addiction—A major health problem David W Brook Judith S Brook Dan J Lettieri Barry Stimmel.
Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New ...

Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New ...

Judith Wellman

10 987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wellman, Judith. Grass roots reform in the burned-over district of upstate New York : religion, abolitionism, and democracy /Judith Wellman. p. cm. — tStudies in African ...
Judith Baker Montano's Essential Stitch Guide: A Source Book ...

Judith Baker Montano's Essential Stitch Guide: A Source Book ...

Judith Baker Montano

Globally recognized needlework expert and best-selling author Judith Baker Montano shares 180 stitches and 70 combinations. Full-color illustrations of embroidery, silk ribbon stitches, and crazy quilting combinations are featured.
Judith

Judith

Jean Giraudoux

THE STORY: Under siege by the armies of the giant barbarian, Holofernes, the Judean city is about to capitulate--and the people, and prophets, call out to the lovely, virginal Judith as their last hope of salvation.
Judith

Judith

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Yet there is no available edition of Judith that is either comprehensive or up to date, or which at all explains how and why the poem is worthy of our attention. This new edition aims to fill this gap.
Monitoring Democracy: When International Election ...

Monitoring Democracy: When International Election ...

Judith Green Kelley

What is novel about this book--and what stands as Judith Kelley's singular achievement--is her comprehensive and systematic collection of evidence.
A Human Pattern: Selected Poems

A Human Pattern: Selected Poems

Judith Wright

Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants.

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