Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Sue Harper 9780826447333

A survey of the ways in which women have been represented in British cinema from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century. It analyzes the input women have had on the industry, and charts the difficulties they encountered and the successes they achieved. Using a range of archive and interview material, the author raises the issues of representation and the studio system, and different types of creative control. She also establishes the historically specific nature of the social and sexual fantasies produced by the cinema. The book is written in a lively and confrontational manner and contains some swinging attacks on received opinions about women and the cinema.

About the Author
Sue Harper is reader in film history at the University of Portsmouth. Her most recent book is Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film.

Reviews
"Written in an engagingly direct style...an accessible and thorough account....a valuable source of reference and a mapping of the terrain for future research." --Journal of Popular British Cinema, 2002
"A nicely condensed and even racy sense of narrative."--The Stage
"Written with a zeal for its subjects which makes the book both a pleasure to read and a valuable social document....Harper...has done as much as anyone to examine the importance of the representation and function of women in British cinema."--Australian Journal
"successfully melds the methods of empirically-based historical research (...) with textual analysis. It is also lucidly and forcefully written...capable of insight and erudition....informed, insightful, illuminating and often innovative...this book is indeed written with a passion for the British cinema and for the place of women within it." --HJFRT, March 2002
"Women in British Cinema is a major contribution to this growing body of literature. [Sue Harper] combines a combative and engaged feminism with a scholarly analysis of a wide variety of primary sources that allow her to contextualize her acute analysis." -Andrew Spicer, Journal of Contemporary History, 2004



Book Information
ISBN 9780826447333
Author Sue Harper
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 350g