Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth CenturyMurray Pomerance Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth century. In order to view the screened face of gender in bold new ways, the contributors cover a wide variety of cinematic forms and styles from the boy-girls of Hong Kong cinema to the on-screen modesty of post-revolutionary Iran to the New Hollywood s treatment of homosexuality, female power, and male intellectuality. Throughout, the works of important filmmakers are analyzed, including Ridley Scott, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Rakhshan Banietemad, Kathryn Bigelow, Bertrand Tavernier, Roman Polanski, and many others. |
Contents
Introduction Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century | 1 |
No Safe Place Gender and Space in Polanskis Recent Films | 19 |
Veiled Voice and Vision in Iranian Cinema The Evolution of Rakhshan Banietemads Films | 37 |
BoyGirls Gender Body and Popular Culture in Hong Kong Action Movies | 55 |
The Gender of GenerAsian X in Clara Laws Migration Trilogy | 71 |
Eating and Drinking Men and Women | 91 |
Boys Will Be Boys David Cronenbergs Crash Course in Heavy Mettle | 109 |
The Wabbit Wenegotiates Looney Tunes in a Conglomerate Age | 129 |
SheDevils on Wheels Women Motorcycles and Movies | 203 |
Howards First Kiss Sissies and Gender Police in the New Old Hollywood | 217 |
Hipsters and Nerds Black Jazz Artists and Their White Shadows | 233 |
Lets Keep Coin On the Road with Louise and Thelma | 249 |
Jews in Space The Ordeal of Masculinity in Contemporary American Film and Television | 267 |
Gender and Other Transcendences William Blake as Johnny Depp | 283 |
Marion Crane Dies Twice | 301 |
List of Contributors | 317 |
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