Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond

Robin Wood

I. Introductory

1. Introduction

2. Facisim/Cinema

II. Marriage and the Couple

3. The Couple and the Other

4. Renoir and Mozart

5. Resistance to Definition: Ozu's "Noriko" Trilogy

III. The Family

6. Leo McCarey and "Family Values"

7. Family Loyalties

IV. Romantic Love

8. The Two Gaslights

9. Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double Narrative

V. Women—Oppression and Transgression

10. Three Films of Mizoguchi: Questions of Style and Identification

11. Persona Revisited

VI. Race and Gender

12. Mandingo: The Vindication of an Abused Masterpiece

VII. Toward Liberation

13. Narrative Pleasure: Two Films by Jacques Rivette

14. Drawing Earl: The Lesson of Life Classes

15. Rethinking Romantic Love: Before Sunrise

16. Finale: The Doom Generation

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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