ISBN:
9780230283848
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (174 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
DDC:
791.43082
Keywords:
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Motion pictures and literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Agency, Adaptation, and Authorship; 1 Envisioning Judith Shakespeare: Collaboration and the Woman Author; 2 Adapt or Die: The Dangers of Women's Authorship; 3 Authorizing the Mother: Sisterhoods in America; 4 Postfeminist Austen: By Women, for Women, about Women; Conclusion: The Secret Life of Bees and Authorial Subversion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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