Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Autorentext
JUDITH MAYNE, Professor of French and Women's Studies at Ohio State University, is the author of Cinema and Spectatorship, The Woman at the Keyhole, Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film, and Private Novels, Public Films.

Klappentext
This is the first full-length study of the woman who has always been the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades.

Zusammenfassung
Documents Dorothy Arzner's film career, her work as a film editor, her directorial debut, and her departure from Hollywood in 1943. This book analyzes a number of Arzner's films, and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them. It treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
The Cinderella Girl of the Movies
1. Apprenticeship
2. Successes and Failures
3. The Independent
4. After Hollywood
Part II
Films for Women Made by Women
5. Working Girls
6. Odd Couples
7. Dance, Girls, Dance
Part III
Girl Director Sets New Standards of Beauty
8. Looking for Dorothy
Conclusion: Lesbian Detection
Notes
Filmography
Index

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