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Cloth: $29.95 ISBN 0-691-09440-3 American Film Melodrama Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli Robert Lang "The difficulty for men or ‘the impossibility for women of living up to patriarchal society's ideal order is the very stuff of melodrama," writes Robert Lang in this daring work on what the author sees as, the central genre of American film. Lang traces the development of melodrama in the first fifty years of the American cinema by offering detailed inter­ pretations of Griffith's Way Down East, The Mo­ ther and the Law, and Broken Blossoms: Vidor's The Crowd, Stella Dallas, and Ruby Gentry: and Minnelli's Madame Bovary, Some Came Running, and Home from the Hill. 21 stills. Paper: $12.95 ISBN 0-691-00606-7 Cloth: $39.95 ISBN 0-691-04759-6 Joyless Streets Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany Patrice Petro Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as re­ sponding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question. 63 halftones. Paper: $12.95 ISBN 0-691-00830-2 Cloth: $39.95 ISBN 0-691-05552-1 Allegories of Cinema American Film in the Sixties David E. James From Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol to the underground cinema and political films, David James gives a thorough account of the growth, development, and decay of nonstudio film practices in the United States between the late fifties and the mid-seventies. Unlike other scholars who discuss these practices as totally sepa­ rate from Hollywood, James argues that they were developed in various kinds of dialogue or negotiation with the commercial film industry. 300 stills. Paper: $14.95 ISBN 0-691-00604-0 Cloth: $65.00 ISBN 0-691-04755-3 Due July 1989. Shot/Countershot Film Tradition and Women's Cinema Lucy Fischer Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or "countershot," and Lucy Fischer argues persua­ sively for this view. In rich detail this book relates the idea of a counter-cinema to theories of intertextuality and locates it in the broad context of recent feminist film, literary, and art criticism. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a women's film tradition that not only addresses but reworks and remakes the mainstream cinema. 25 stills. Paper: $12.95 ISBN 0-691-00605-9 Cloth: $39.50 ISBN 0-691-04756-1 Not available In the British Commonwealth and Europe. © AT YOUR BOOKSTORE ORPrinceton University Press41 WILLIAM ST. . 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