The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk.
A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of Vanity Tables in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view? Or is it a gateway to the past, and the future, and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the role...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Mark Rappaport,
2014.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video |
| Summary: | A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of Vanity Tables in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view? Or is it a gateway to the past, and the future, and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the roles that woman are forced to play in society? |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (11 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 00:10:47 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |