Modernist Women and Cinema

• Authors: Maggie Humm
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Matching the ever-increasing numbers of female participants in the commercial venues of department stores and cinemas in the 1920s, modernist women writers enjoyed a new visibility in the intellectual world of cinema journalism. Yet cinema modernism, like literary modernism, was veined by masculinity in the 1920s. The paper argues that modernist women writers, including Colette, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf, created a feminist standpoint. By replacing the prescriptive male gaze with a feminist aesthetics: identifying with stars and women viewers and by describing audiences as socially constituted and gendered.

Keywords

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modernism, women, cinema, viewer, feminist aesthetic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3(21)

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-10-23

Contributors

author

Maggie Humm