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050	0	0	_aPN1995.9.W6 CUM
100	1		_aCummins, Kathleen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHerstories on screen : _bfeminist subversions of frontier myths / _ccreated by Kathleen Cummins.
264		1	_bWallflower, _c2020
300			_a323 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Women's Storytelling: Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice -- 2. Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier -- 3. Feminist Symbolic Frontier: Landscapes -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Films.
520			_a"From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries' popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won new access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films challenged traditionally male genres like the Western. Instead of reinforcing the myths of nationhood often portrayed in such films-invariably featuring a lone white male hero pitted against the "savage" and "uncivilized" native terrain-these filmmakers constructed counternarratives centering on women and marginalized communities. In place of rugged cowboys violently removing indigenous peoples to make the frontier safe for their virtuous wives and daughters, these filmmakers told the stories of colonial and postcolonial societies from a female and/or subaltern point of view. Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers including Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Merata Mita, Tracey Moffat, and Anne Wheeler. She reveals how they skillfully deploy genre tropes and popular storytelling conventions in order to critique master narratives of feminine domesticity and purity and depict women and subaltern people performing acts of agency and resistance. Cummins details the ways in which second-wave feminist theory and aesthetics informed these filmmakers' efforts to debunk idealized Anglo-Saxon femininity and motherhood and lay bare gendered and sexual violence and colonial oppression"--
650		0	_aFeminist films _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aFeminism and motion pictures.
650		0	_aWomen in motion pictures.
650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _xIn motion pictures.
650		0	_aMotion pictures and women.
650		0	_aWomen in the motion picture industry.
650		0	_aWomen motion picture producers and directors.
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