Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader Book

	Foreword
	Border crossings: women and film in context
	Everything in question: women and film in prospect
	The colour of virtue: Lillian Gish, whiteness and femininity	1
	Exorcised: Marlene Dietrich and German nationalism	10
	From Dietrich to Madonna: cross-gender icons	16
	Glamour and suffering: Gong Li and the history of Chinese stars	21
	Denying her place: Hattie McDaniel's surprising acts	30
	Audrey Hepburn: fashion, film and the 50s	36
	Catherine Deneuve and French womanhood	41
	Never a victim: Jodie Foster, a new kind of female hero	50
	The outsider: Whoopi Goldberg and shopping mall America	62
	A body of political work: Tilda Swinton in interview	68
	High and low: the transformation of the rape-revenge movie	76
	'Thelma & Louise' and the tradition of the male road movie	86
	The 'Alien' trilogy: from feminism to Aids	93
	Working against the grain: women in animation	101
	Sisters under the skin: video and blockbuster erotic thrillers	105
	The beast's beauty: Jean Gabin, masculinity, and the French hero	115
	Grabbing the knife: 'The Silence of the Lambs' and the history of the serial killer movie	123
	'Cape Fear' and femininity as destructive power	132
	'Falling Down' and the rise of the Average White Male	138
	Men, women, children and the baby boom movies	148
	Fathers and daughters in French cinema: from the 20s to 'La Belle Noiseuse'	156
	Homo pomo: the new queer cinema	164
	Queer questions: a response to B. Ruby Rich	174
	Queer male cinema and feminism	176
	Female misbehaviour: the cinema of Monika Treut	180
	Leni Riefenstahl: the body beautiful, art cinema and fascist aesthetics	186
	Chantal Akerman and feminist film-making	198
	Monitoring conformity: the career of Doris Dorrie	204
	Mira Nair: a new hybrid cinema	210
	Against crawling realism: Sally Potter on 'Orlando'	217
	Julie Dash: 'Daughters of the Dust' and a black aesthetic	224
	Jane Campion: costume drama and reclaiming women's past	232
	Actors' filmographies	243
	Directors' filmographies	251
	Select bibliography	254
	Contributors' notes	265
	Index	269