Me Jane: Masculinity, Movies and Women

by PatKirkham (Author), JanetThumim (Author)

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  1995

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  This study gets to grips with issues of gender and identity on the big screen. These essays vary widely in scope: some offer detailed discussion of one film, some take an individual star as the focus, and some deal more broadly with over-arching questions of genre and spectatorship. All, however, deliver a combination of informed scholarship and specific moments in which the interaction between image and audience is explored. Following the companion volume - You Tarzan - in which men looked at masculinity on the big screen, this book gives women their say. Contributors include Griselda Pollock on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan , Susannah Radstone on Al Pacino's sex, Lola Young on The Crying Game and Rikki Morgan on Pedro Almodovar. Pat Kirkham is the author of Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the 20th Century . Janet Thumim is the author of Celluloid Sisters: Women in Popular Cinema .