Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema

by Lucy Fischer

Book Overview

Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or "countershot," and Lucy Fischer argues persuasively for this view. In rich detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuality and locates it in the broad context of recent feminist film, literary, and art criticism. Fischer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006059
• ISBN13: 9780691006055
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"