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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Mayne, Judith

Paperback

Series: Women Artists in Film

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0253208963
ISBN13: 9780253208965
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jan 22 1995
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history--the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career--her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure from Hollywood in 1943--is documented, with particular attention to Arzner's roles as star-maker and woman's director. In Part Two, Mayne analyzes a number of Arzner's films and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them, from the women's communities central to Dance, Girl, Dance and The Wild Party to critiques of the heterosexual couple in Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife. Part Three treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

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