Author: Haskell, Molly
Title: Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists
Description: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195053095. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.207. The author, one of America's leading film critics, challenges in this book the conventional feminist wisdom that the classic movies from the 30, s-50's were made by a male dominated industry which reduced women to objects of "male gaze". Instead she says that women were better served by the notoriously tyrannical studio system then they are in the "newer, freer, hipper, Hollywood of the present". clean tight copy with slight edgewear. Fine/Fine.

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