The Women's Companion to International Film

by Annette Kuhn (Editor), SusannahRadstone (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $22.83

  This feminist guide to cinema presents the women and men who have been essential to films around the world from the first days of cinema to the 1990s. Eighty contributors cover the history of film-making, from mainstream Hollywood to the avant garde, Hitchcock to Agnes Varda, aboriginal video to women's revenge film. The book also deals with concepts in film theory and criticism. The editors include explanations of technical terms regularly used in such writing, thus making the works of specialists in these areas more accessible to lay cinema-goers.