Book Description 近年來女性主義電影批評已在電影研究中開創了一個全新的領域，它不斷開發出啟迪人心、聰敏機智而令人興奮的作品，而且還強烈地影響了男性評論家的作品。 在這個新領域的理論研究上，已呈現百家爭鳴的豐碩現象，其範圍涵蓋了社會學、政治學、結構主義、心理方析；作者從中提出了一個獨特而創新的綜論，以社會結構的層面探討影片中女性角色的種種變貌，並以四部不同時代的好萊塢電影（《茶花女》、《金髮維納斯》、《上海小姐》、《慾海花》）及數部歐美、第三世界的獨立製片電影（《德國姊妹》、《關於一個女人的電影》、《女兒的儀式》、《這樣或那樣》、《驚悚》、《人面獅身之謎》等）來分析傳統上電影如何表現女性，威權式的影像如何宰制女性，以及女性電影工作者如何回應這種種現象。其在影片分析上既平易近人而又生動，而在爭論性頗大的理論論述上則深入而翔實，因此本書不但...(展开全部)

Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries – of taste, of bodies, of reason – are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the materna...(展开全部)

Scrum and Kanban are two flavours of Agile software development - two deceptively simple but surprisingly powerful approaches to software development. So how do they relate to each other? The purpose of this book is to clear up the fog, so you can figure out how Kanban and Scrum might be useful in your environment. Part I illustrates the similarities and differences between Kan...(展开全部)

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity—particularly the urban landscape. The ...(展开全部)

How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, a...(展开全部)

The Work of the Film Director

The Analysis of Film is at once a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollywood film, Hitchcock's work--The Birds, Marnie, Psycho. North by Northwest--and the role of the woman in western representation. But, finally, it is a book about cinema itself and the love for cinema that drives the passion for analyzing the supreme art form of the ...(展开全部)