Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond

Robin Wood

"Wood has a rare and welcome grasp of the difficulties of fashioning a film narrative that both satisfies a mass audience and remains critical of its own achievement." — K. Tölölyan, ChoiceWesleyan University

"Wood, as always, breaks ground with his fresh, incisive, thought-provoking, and challenging essays on films that others have either relegated to a narrow and politically correct interpretation (Gaslight and Letter from an Unknown Woman or ignored(Make Way for Tomorrow) or scorned (Mandingo). Wood brings clarity of thought, deep personal honesty, and an amazing knowledge of film to bear on an international array of material." — Jeanine D. Bassinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Curator of the Cinema Archives, Wesleyan University

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

Robin Wood, recently retired as professor of film studies at Atkinson College, York University, Canada, is the author of Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Hitchcock's Films Revisited (both Columbia).

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