...Jeanne Allen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Palaces of Consumption as Women’s Club: En-countering Women’s Labor History and Feminist Film Criticism ]eanne Allen As leading promoters of consumer culture in the United States, the...

...Faye Stewart This study traces shared national narratives about women, work, and precarity in films made by East German women directors in the state-run DEFA studios before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A comparative analysis of Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad ( The Bicycle , 1982) and Helke...

... are nonetheless geopolitically and historically specific, consistently focusing on the awkwardness of white, heterosexual, middle-class, professional German women and what Lauren Berlant refers to as the “cruel optimism” that renders their seemingly privileged existence precarious. Ade distinguishes...

...Lisa Cartwright Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Highlights aztd Shadows (James Sibley Watson for Kodak Research Laboratories, USA, 1937) Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture of Prophylactic Imaging Lisa Cat-twright...

...Lisbeth Gant-Britton Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Molzday’s Girls (Ngozi Onwurah, 1993) African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus Lis beth Gant-Britton Go to any cinema in the United States-or other western country for that matter-and the...

...Christina Creveling © 1976 by Camera Obscura 1976 Women Working This section is intended to give information about and provide a space for some filmmakers who are little known or simply notknown in this country. The comments are provided so as to try to give an idea of what...

...Chantal Akerman; Christina Creveling © 1977 by Camera Obscura 1977 Women Working CHANTAL AKERMAN News From Home (1976) 16mm; color; sound A film of images of New York City, what you see every day when you live there. Akerman left Belgium one day when she was twenty...

...Marc Silberman © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Women Working Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2) Marc Silberman Since completing the first installment of this catalog in 1980, women directors have released many new films in West Germany...

...Diane Waldman; Janet Walker Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Book Reviews Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan’s Women and FiZm: Both Sides of the Camera Dime WaZdman andJanet WaZher It has been over two years since the publication of E. Ann Kaplan’s...

...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski’s Loving with a Engeance: Mass-Prodgced Fantasies for Women Lynn S’igel Loving With a Vengeance’ is an attempt to locate a collective feminine fantasy in ‘mass-produced...

...Robert H. Deming Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Kate and Allie Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archive Robert H. Deming Network television rediscovered the "new woman" again in the Fall 1984 season. Several prime...

...Ien Ang Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ." Z Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women~ Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press...

...Rhona Berenstein Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Remembering History: Films by Women at the 1989 Toronto Film Festival Rhona Berenstein . . . the textual construction (written filmic, etc.) of discursive spaces in which not Woman but...

...Erin Addison Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures, 1992). 0 The Walt Disney Company. All rights reserved. Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disney’s Aladdin Erin Addison In academic writing...

... and is in the postproduction stages of a feature-length documentary, Talk Back Bosnia: A Dialogue on Nation Building . Loie Fuller in The Serpentine Dance. Courtesy New York Public Library Women in Motion: Loie Fuller and the “Interpenetration” of Art and Science Elizabeth Coffman...

...Melinda Barlow Camera Obscura 2003 Editor’s Note on “Dossier on Women and Video: Histories and Practices” In North America, video and feminism have shared a history since the heady 1970s. There seems to be an almost “organic rela- tionship,” in contributor Laura Marks’s phrase...

... a fellow of the Center for Behavioral Research at the American University of Beirut. Still from Hadel Nazmy’s open studio project, “Personal Diary in Desolate Town,” at Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery in 2002. Courtesy Hadel Nazmy What Is That and between Arab Women and Video? The...

...Lindsey Moore Camera Obscura 2005 Lindsey Moore is lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. She has published articles on Algerian revolutionary women in the texts of Frantz Fanon and Gillo Pontecorvo and on Shirin Neshat, an Iranian artist resident in the United States. She is...

... Treats Objects Like Women Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski Brian Wall It is the hardest thing in the world to be a materialist. In theory, that is — as a theorist. Even though thought seems irreducible in its linguistic and even imagistic materiality, nonetheless, in...

... documentaries frequently focus on women and children in not only the United Kingdom but also in cultures as diverse as Japan, Iran, and nations in Africa. This essay explores four of her most well-known recent documentaries, Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001), both made in Tehran and codirected...