From Reverence To Rape: The Treatment Of Women In The Movies
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A landmark work of feminist film criticism, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell presents a sweeping and incisive analysis of how Hollywood cinema has historically portrayed women, from the golden age of the studio system through the early 1970s. Haskell argues with sharp, authoritative wit that the silver screen has long oscillated between pedestalizing and degrading its female subjects, reflecting and reinforcing the broader cultural anxieties of each era. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of film history, she chronicles the evolution of female archetypes—the vamp, the virgin, the career woman, the self-sacrificing mother—and illustrates how these roles both shaped and were shaped by shifting social attitudes toward women. Written with the passion of an advocate and the precision of a scholar, the work remains one of the most essential and provocative texts in cinema studies, challenging readers to reconsider the films they love through a critical, gender-conscious lens.
Author: Molly Haskell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, New English Library
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of feminist film criticism, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell presents a sweeping and incisive analysis of how Hollywood cinema has historically portrayed women, from the golden age of the studio system through the early 1970s. Haskell argues with sharp, authoritative wit that the silver screen has long oscillated between pedestalizing and degrading its female subjects, reflecting and reinforcing the broader cultural anxieties of each era. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of film history, she chronicles the evolution of female archetypes—the vamp, the virgin, the career woman, the self-sacrificing mother—and illustrates how these roles both shaped and were shaped by shifting social attitudes toward women. Written with the passion of an advocate and the precision of a scholar, the work remains one of the most essential and provocative texts in cinema studies, challenging readers to reconsider the films they love through a critical, gender-conscious lens.