{"product_id":"reframing-todd-haynes-feminisms-indelible-mark-9781478018001","title":"Reframing Todd Haynes  Feminisms Indelible Mark","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional position as a director of women’s films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I love \u003ci\u003eReframing Todd Haynes\u003c\/i\u003e. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” -- Christine Vachon\u003cbr\u003e“Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” -- Mary Ann Doane, author of * Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReframing Todd Haynes\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . \u003ci\u003eReframing Todd Haynes\u003c\/i\u003e shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” -- Edward Jackson * US Studies Online *\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.\" -- J. I. Deutsch * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark \/ Theresa L. Geller  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Influences and Interlocutors\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lesbian Reverie: \u003ci\u003eCarol\u003c\/i\u003e in History and Fantasy \/ Patricia White  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of \u003ci\u003eVelvet Goldmine\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Julia Leyda  51\u003cbr\u003e 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body \/ Rebecca M. Gordon  72\u003cbr\u003e 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature \/ David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller  91\u003cbr\u003e 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: \u003ci\u003eSafe\u003c\/i\u003e as Feminist Film Praxis \/ Theresa L. Geller  111\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Intersections and Interventions\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist \u003ci\u003ePoison\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Jess Issacharoff  137\u003cbr\u003e 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on \u003ci\u003eMildred Pierce\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Patrick Flanery  158\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk \/ Sharon Willis  173\u003cbr\u003e 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in \u003ci\u003eSafe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarol\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWonderstruck\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai  200\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality\u003cbr\u003e 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in \u003ci\u003eFar from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lynne Joyrich  221\u003cbr\u003e 11. It's Not TV, It's \u003ci\u003eMildred Pierce\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Bridget Kies  243\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter \/ Mary R. Desjardins  256\u003cbr\u003e 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes \/ Noah A. Tsika  281\u003cbr\u003e 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan \/ Nick Davis  299\u003cbr\u003e Filmography  317\u003cbr\u003e References  321\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  341\u003cbr\u003e Index  345","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867287630167,"sku":"9781478018001","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018001.jpg?v=1722282606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reframing-todd-haynes-feminisms-indelible-mark-9781478018001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}