Jane B Gaines

Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future (Women & Film History International)

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary--but also practices--publicity, journalism, d...

Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars

Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by neatly answering all of the enigmas it raises. It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthet...

Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, askin...

Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting ...

Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body (AFI Film Readers)

Fabrications begins with a single germ in feminist film theory--the "to-be-looked-at" aesthetic described by Laura Mulvey--and pushes it further, considering the pleasures women derive from consumer culture against the social costs they have paid as wife, mother, and worker. Here, American feminist ...

Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an ambitious historical and theoret...

Collecting Visible Evidence

Collecting Visible Evidence

Fire & Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

Fire & Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, the Law

Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, the Law

Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

Collecting Visible Evidence

Collecting Visible Evidence

Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars