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The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen (2025)
Dir. Susan Liddy et Deirdre Flynn
Sujet : Sociologie
Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations (2024)
A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History
Sujet : Sociologie
Single Lives (2022)
Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film
Dir. Katherine Fama et Jorie Lagerwey
Sujet : Sociologie
The New Female Antihero (2022)
The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television
de Sarah Hagelin et Gillian Silverman
Sujet : Sociologie
Mothers of Invention (2022)
Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor
Dir. So Mayer et Corinn Columpar
Sujet : Sociologie
Framing Female Lawyers
Women On Trial In Film (livre en anglais)
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Description de l'ouvrage :
As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority.
In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.
À propos de l'auteur :
Cynthia Lucia is professor of Media Arts (Film and Television) at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also serves on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine.
Revue de Presse :
The book asks important questions about the seemingly taken for granted quality of feminist perspectives on gender and work, about the ways in which both the codes of law and those of genre "frame" the female lawyer, and about the persistence of anxious constructions of successful women.
— Cineaste
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