Herstories on screen : feminist subversions of frontier myths /
"From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries' popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won new access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailbl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wallflower Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/cumm18950 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Women's Storytelling: Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice
- 2. Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier
- 3. Feminist Symbolic Frontier: Landscapes
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: The Films.