Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists

by Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell, one of America's leading film critics, has been delighting readers for decades with her intelligence and insight. Her landmark book, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, praised for its "wit and style" and called "a valuable contribution to film scholarship," is still considered among the most stimulating and important books on the subject of women and film. In Holding My Own in No Man's Land, a series of pieces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053095
• ISBN13: 9780195053098
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Wit and insight about John Wayne, Doris Day, Lucille Ball, makeup and much more!

Molly Haskell is NOT a reviewer. She is a wonderful social critic whose feminism informs rather than limits the range of insights she brings to her subjects. Most of the subjects - but not all - have to do with women in movies and television: how they are depicted, the roles available etc. But in this wide-ranging collection, she also discusses makeup, rape fantasies, nudity and the new take-no-prisoners TV female comedians - among other things! For a more thorough treatment of Women in Film, her book From Reverence to Rape is indispensable. But this collection allows her to ponder a wider range of subject. For those who really love film and popular art and are interested in the assumptions behind so much of our popular culture, this book will delight.