Chick Flicks
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Chick Flicks

Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

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Chick Flicks

Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

About this book

If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.

For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program "The World" have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems "cinefeminism." In the hope that a new generation of feminist film culture might be revitalized by reclaiming its own history, Rich introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose. Travel, softball, sex, and voodoo all somehow fit into a book that includes classic Rich articles covering such topics as the antiporn movement, the films of Yvonne Rainer, a Julie Christie visit to Washington, and the historically evocative film Maedchen in Uniform. The result is a volume that traces the development not only of women's involvement in cinema but of one of its key players as well.

The first book-length work from Rich—whose stature and influence in the world of film criticism and theory continue to grow—Chick Flicks exposes unexplored routes and forgotten byways of a past that's recent enough to be remembered and far away enough to be memorable.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface: Jews without Books
  4. Introduction
  5. Prologue. I Found It at the Movies
  6. 1. Film in the Sixties
  7. Prologue. Hippie Chick in the Art World
  8. 2. Carolee Schneemann's Fuses
  9. Prologue. Angst and Joy on the Women's Film Festival Circuit
  10. 3. Leni Riefenstahl: The Deceptive Myth
  11. Prologue. Life, Death, and Tragic Homecoming
  12. 4. Voodoo Verite: Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen
  13. Prologue. An Iguana, Some Wolves, and the Dawn of Theory
  14. 5. In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism
  15. Prologue. O Brave New World
  16. 6. One Way or Another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban Experience
  17. Prologue. A Woman's Declaration of Secession from the Avant-Garde
  18. 7. Sex and Cinema
  19. Prologue. Love's Labor Lost
  20. 8. Misconception: Laboring under No Illusions
  21. Prologue. Cows and Hero-Worship
  22. 9. The Films of Yvonne Rainer
  23. Prologue. Knokke-Heist and the Fury That Was Edinburgh
  24. 10. Designing Desire: Chantal Akerman
  25. Prologue. Euphoria Reclaims History
  26. 11. From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Maedchen in Uniform
  27. Prologue. Softball, the Goddess, and Lesbian Film Culture
  28. 12. The Right of Re-Vision: Michelle Citron's Daghter Rite (coauthored with Linda Williams)
  29. Prologue. The Allure of Alchemy
  30. 13. Femicide Investigation: Thriller
  31. Prologue. Sour Grapes
  32. 14. She Says, He Says: The Power of the Narrator in Modernist Film Politics
  33. Prologue. Sex, Gender, and Consumer Culture
  34. 15. Antiporn: Soft Issue, Hard World (Not a Love Story)
  35. Prologue. Unguided Tours
  36. 16. The Feminist Avant-Garde
  37. Prologue. Attacking the Sisters, or the Limits of Disagreement
  38. 17. Cinefeminism and Its Discontents
  39. Prologue. Libel Threats and Exile Tactics
  40. 18. Truth, Faith, and the Individual: Thoughts on U.S. Documentary Film Practice
  41. Prologue. Disempowerment and the Politics of Rage
  42. 19. Lady Killers: A Question of Silence
  43. Prologue. Film Stars as Outstanding Human Being
  44. 20. Julie Christie Goes to Washington
  45. Prologue. Blaming the Victim
  46. 21. Good Girls, Bad Girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk
  47. Prologue: The Berks and the Sex Wars
  48. 22. Feminism and Sexuality in the Eighties
  49. Epilogue: Charting the Eighties
  50. Notes
  51. Index