Women and their sexuality in the new film /

Explores the treatment of women and their sexuality in modern films, by directors, writers and producers. The author examines many significant recent films and shows how female sexuality, lesbianism and sexual politics have been conditioning the new film.--Adapted from back cover of paperback

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mellen, Joan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Horizon Press, [1974]
Subjects:	Women in motion pictures. Sex in motion pictures. Femmes au cinéma. Sexualité au cinéma. Motion pictures > History > 20th century. Lesbians in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Bourgeois woman : a disturbance in mirrors
Female sexuality in films
Lesbianism in the movies
Bergman and women
Sexual politics and Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris
The moral psychology of Rohmer's tales
Makavejev and Reich : WR: The Mysteries Of The Organism
Buñuel's Tristana
Visconti' Death In Venice : failing Thomas Mann
Outfoxing Lawrence : novella in film
The Mae West nobody knows
Counter-revolt : Up The Sandbox.