{"product_id":"women-at-work-in-twentyfirstcentury-european-cinema-9780252083952","title":"Women at Work in TwentyFirstCentury European","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy.\" --\u003ci\u003eFeminist German Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWomen at Work\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of \u003ci\u003enew\u003c\/i\u003e images European cinema has been offering us.\" --\u003ci\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts.\" --\u003ci\u003eMAI: Feminism \u0026amp; Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e​​\u003c\/i\u003e\"This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity.\"--Hester Baer, author of \u003ci\u003eDismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema.\"--Maria Stehle, author of \u003ci\u003eGhetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400511103319,"sku":"9780252083952","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252083952.jpg?v=1730470860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-at-work-in-twentyfirstcentury-european-cinema-9780252083952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}