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Sisters on Screen
Eva Rueschmann
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Description for Sisters on Screen
Paperback. Explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. This book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge and draws upon the works of filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s. Series: Culture & the Moving Image. Num Pages: 221 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JFSJ1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex, and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, \u0022sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history,\u0022 according to author Eva Ruschmann. Although many of the women-centered films in the last three decades depict the relationship between sisters as a pivotal aspect of a character's psychological development, the now substantial body of feminist film criticism has not taken up this theme in any sustained way. In Sisters on Screen, Eva Rueschmann explores the sister bond in a wide range of ... Read more
Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex, and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, \u0022sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history,\u0022 according to author Eva Ruschmann. Although many of the women-centered films in the last three decades depict the relationship between sisters as a pivotal aspect of a character's psychological development, the now substantial body of feminist film criticism has not taken up this theme in any sustained way. In Sisters on Screen, Eva Rueschmann explores the sister bond in a wide range of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Series
Culture & the Moving Image
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566397476
SKU
V9781566397476
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About Eva Rueschmann
Eva Rueschmann is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Hampshire College.
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