Recommend me a book about gender & film anyone?

[SomethingSuper]

I've been mooching around Amazon looking for a fairly recent book on women in movies, hundreds of books but no clue where to start.

Not sure how far I'd get with a particularly scholarly read, would quite like something accessible if anyone can recommend something?

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

Do you mean a feminist critique of film, the role of women in the film industry generally or a book about film actresses?

If it's the first, this might be worth a try, although it may be a tad scholarly...

[ChristinedePizan]

Laura Mulvey is very accessible (well she was when I studied her in my degree) - no idea about the other writers in that anthology.

[NomNomNom]

Anything by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, they are all kinds of awesome.

I recommend this one although it is mostly about TV.

HTH

[SomethingSuper]

Thanks, will look at those. I suppose, now I've had a bit of a think, I want something about the quite limited depictions of women/changing depictions/ the different kind of 'ideal' woman we're supposed to be aiming to be. I like the look of What A Girl Wants, so may get that.

This book looks at how Ellen Ripley (Alien films) reflects different expectations/types of women in each of the movies according to the time it was made. I found that really interesting and accessible.

There are quite a few that I'm interested in (From Rape to Reverence; Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema; The Monstrous-feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis) but they're all quite dated. Ho hum! Thanks for those recommendations though, will have a look.

[AyeRobot]

I've not read any books yet, but I love this article. The whole blog is great.

I started a thread about a study of gender inequality in film but it was an inadvertent post and run because I lost my internet for a while.

I'll have to check out some of the suggestions on this thread. The way in which I choose films to watch, and the pleasure I get from them, has changed so much since I started on the whole feminism thing but my thoughts are still somewhat nebulous.