{"product_id":"chick-flicks-9780822321217","title":"Chick Flicks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and a cultural historical odyssey, this title features the-way-it-was collection of essays that captures the birth and growth of feminist film. It introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ruby Rich reinvents both herself and her approach to film criticism, in a fascinating book that alternates autobiography and theory. She is wise and funny at the same time, never dogmatic, always allowing her discovery process to remain in clear view.”—Roger Ebert\u003cbr\u003e“This collection of writings by B. Ruby Rich is sure to become a classic. She has proven herself to be a courageous guide into uncharted aesthetic and political territory and, in describing so eloquently what she finds there, she does what critics aspire to but rarely achieve: she both educates and entertains.”—Sally Potter, director of the films \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tango\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a remarkable book. Rich has written a memoir that encourages the reader not only to see the original essays in a new context but also and especially to understand the development of an intellectual and political moment with all of its complications and personal investments.”—Judith Mayne, author of \u003ci\u003eCinema and Spectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Jews without Books  Introduction  Prologue. I found it at the movies  Film in the sixties  Prologue. Hippie Chick in the Art World  Carolee Schneemann's Fuses  Prologue. Angst and Joy on the Women's Film Festival Circuit  Leni Riefenstahl: The Deceptive Myth  Prologue. Life, Death and Tragic Homecoming  4. Voodoo Verite: Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen  Prologue. An Iguana, Some Wolves, and the Dawn of Theory  In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism  Prologue. O Brave New World  One Way or Another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban Experience  Prologue. A Woman's Declaration of Secession from the Avant-Garde  Sex and Cinema  Prologue. Love's Labour Lost  Misconception: Labouring under No Illusions  Prologue. Cows and Hero Worship  The Films of Yvonne Rainer  Prologue. Knokke-Heist and the Fury that was Edinburgh  Designing Desire: Chantal Akerman  Prologue. Euphoria Reclaims History  From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Maedchen in Uniform  Prologue. Softball, the Goddess and Lesbian Film Culture  The Right of Re-Vision: Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite  Prologue. The Allure of Alchemy  Femicide Investigation: Thriller  Prologue. Sour Grapes  She Says, He Says: The Power of the Narrator in Modernist Film Politics  Prologue. Sex, Gender, and the Consumer Culture  Antiporn: Soft Issue, Hard World (Not a Love Story)  Prologue. Unguided Tours  The Feminist Avant-Garde  Prologue. Attacking the Sisters, or the Limits of Disagreement  Cinefeminism and its Discontents  Prologue. Libel Threats and Exile Tactics  Truth, Faith and the Individual: Thought on U.S. Documentary Film Practice  Prologue. Disempowerment and the Politics of Rage  Lady Killers: A Question of Silence  Prologue. Film Stars as Outstanding Human Beings  Julie Christie Goes to Washington  Prologue. Banning the Victim  21. Good Girls, Bad Girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk  Prologue. The Berks and the Sex Wars  Feminisims and Sexulality on the Eighties  Epilogue: Charting the Eighties","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406020976983,"sku":"9780822321217","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822321217.jpg?v=1730494268","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chick-flicks-9780822321217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}