Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 269-270.
Introduction / Alex Hughes and James S. Williams -- Bodies cut and dissolved : Dada and surrealist film / Elza Adamowicz -- Diva in the spotlight : music hall to cinema / Kelley Conway -- 'Mon cul est intersexuel?' : Arletty's performance of gender / Keith Reader -- For our eyes only : body and sexuality in reverse motion in the films of Jean Cocteau / James S. Williams -- Setting the agenders : Simone Signoret--The pre-feminist star body / Susan Hayward -- Gender, modernism and mass culture in the new wave / Geneviève Sellier -- 'Autistic masculinity' in Jean-Pierre Melville's crime thrillers / Ginette Vincendeau -- Gender in the French fantasy film 1965-95 / Guy Austin -- Going through the motions : unconscious optics and corporal resistance in Miéville and Godard's France/tour/détour/deux/enfants / Michael Witt -- The god, the king, the fool, and øø : anamorphosing the films of Beineix / Phil Powrie -- AIDS-video : representing the body in Guibert's La Pudeur ou l'impudeur / Alex Hughes -- Gender and sexuality in New New Wave cinema / Dina Sherzer -- Running out of place : gender, space, and crisis in Ferreira Barbosa's Les Gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel and Lvovsky's Oublie-moi / Julia Dobson -- Identification and female friendship in contemporary French film / Emma Wilson.
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This publication tackles such questions as: what role the female voice played when sound cinema was first developed? How have film genres and movements been shaped by gender and sexual politics? And how does gender intersect with factors of race, class, ethnic and national identity? Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.