...Erin Lee Mock Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (syndicated, 1976 – 77) rightly remains a touchstone for television scholars whose work emphasizes genre, gender, and sexuality, and its creator, Norman Lear, is a critical figure to discussions of the television industry in the 1970s. I argue...

... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 142 Mary Ann Doane Although my initial attraction to this project was partially based on the possibility of writing in a different mode, a different type of dis- course, I find myself curiously...

... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Mary Beth Haralovich 175 The concept of “the female spectator’’ has the most explanatory value and the most political potential when used to understand the rela- tionship between...

...Margaret Iversen Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Interim, (Mary Kelly, 1984-89). Installation view. Shaped by Discourse, Dispersed by Desire: Masquerade and Mary Kelly’s Interim Margaret lversen In Julia Kristeva’s indispensable essay “Women’s...

...Ana Stevenson The women’s suffrage subplot in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson, US, 1964) has come to dominate the popular memory of the history of the turn-of- the- century women’s movement. This essay examines how the film’s imaginative portrayal of women’s suffrage, especially...

...Timothy Murray Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Figure 1. Mary Kelly, “La Hudson Boite en fer blanc #6,” from Magiciens de la Mer(d), Artforum, January 1991. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux Timothy...

... and In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochist Aesthetic . She has coauthored four anthologies, most recently Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster and John Ford Made Westerns . She is currently working on a social history of women and Hollywood film culture. “Rags” (Mary Pickford...

.... Introduction: There’s Something about Mary Alexander Doty I was trained by the Catholic Church to be a diva worshipper. In pre – Vatican II days, at least, the Cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary was what seemed to set Catholicism apart from other Christian religions. Though long estranged from...

...Nancy Wood Griselda Pollock. Mary Cassatt (New York: Harper & Row, 1980) © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Mary Cassatt by Griselda Pollock (New York: Harper & Row, 1980) Nancy Wood Griselda Pollock states as the opening caveat ofher book that many readers may well have...

...Jane Weinstock No Essential Femininity: A Conversation between Mary Kelly and Paul Smith Introduction Mary Kelly, an American living in London, resists definition. An artist, a teacher, a curator, a writer, and a filmmaker, a socialist and a feminist, she inhabits...

...Dana Polan © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 ‘ ‘Desire Shifts the DZferance’’ : Figural Poetics and Figural Politics in the Film Theory of Marie-Claire Ropars Dana Polan Polymorphous and perverse the cinema explodes the sign...

...Dana Polan © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 86 Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier : A Compiled by Dana Polan I. Books L ’Ecran de la memoire: essais de lecture cinematographique. Paris: Seuil, 1970. De la litteratwe au cinkma: genese dfuneecn’tzlre...

...Heidi Brevik-Zender Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette (US, 2006) is about fashion and the construction of feminine identity — but not those of ancien-régime France. Rather, it is a modern consideration of contemporary sartorial networks that reflects an ironic twenty-first-century attitude...

...Manuel Ramos-Martínez This essay examines the political significance of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's work with actors in their cinema practice. Straub and Huillet's acting methodology is an essential aspect of their cinema and its struggle to undo militaristic, patriarchal...

.... This essay considers how Rottenberg's stagings of industrial production lines engage with post-Fordist phenomena such as deindustrialization and affective labor. In works such as Time and a Half, Mary's Cherries, Tropical Breeze , and Dough , Rottenberg conveys the incongruity between industrial production...

... and criticized the institution of marriage and the “cheapening” of sexual relations under commodity capitalism. Glyn's works entered the spirited debates on sexual comportment that took place during the 1910s and 1920s alongside the works of progressive activists such as Lois Weber and Marie Stopes. While...

...Maggie Hennefeld This article rethinks the emergence of narrative film syntax through the comedy genre, focusing on slapstick films that depict female unruliness. I discuss films featuring Mabel Normand, Florence Turner, Marie Dressler, Sarah Duhamel, and other forgotten silent comediennes, arguing...

...Scott MacKenzie; Anna Westerståhl Stenport Arnait Video Productions is one of the most aesthetically diverse feminist collectives in the world. Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, by Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau as the first women's Inuit filmmaking collective, Arnait...