461. Media, Gender, Identity

http://theoryhead.com/gender/resources.htm

460. Women and horror

This site offers some insight into important feminist theories around Women and Horror films including Carol Clover’s exploration of representations of women in Horror. You should be making reference to these theories if you want the A-C grades! 

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1775841

Another theory based site this time drawing upon the work of feminist theorist Laura Mulvey

http://www.helium.com/items/132886-women-in-horror-films-ripley-the-alien-and-the-monstrous-feminine

Top 25 Women of Horror – useful maybe

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/816579/top_25_women_of_horror.html?cat=40

147. Women and film timeline

2003 The professional association Women in Film and Television (WFTV)

launches the initiative Directing Change.

Colleen Atwood wins the Oscar for Best Achievement in Costume

Design for Chicago (2002, Marty Richards).

2002 Halle Berry becomes the first black woman to win an Oscar for Best

Actress in a Leading Role for Monster’s Ball (2001, Marc Forster).

Moulin Rouge! wins two Oscars: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration

(Catherine Martin – Art Director, Brigitte Broch – Set Decorator), and

Best Costume Design (including Catherine Martin) and is nominated

for a further six, including Best Editing (Jill Bilcock).

1999 Shakespeare in Love wins seven Oscars (and is nominated for a

further six) including: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gwyneth

Paltrow), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Judi Dench), Best

Costume Design (Sandy Powell), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration

(including Jill Quertier), Best Picture (including Donna Gigliotti).

Jenny Shircore wins an Oscar and a BAFTA for Best Makeup on

Elizabeth (1998, Shekhar Kapur). The film is nominated for a further

six Oscars. At the BAFTAs, Elizabeth wins another five awards,

including Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Cate

Blanchett), and is nominated for a further six.

1997 Ann Roth wins an Oscar for Best Costume Design in The English

Patient (1996, Anthony Minghella).Stella Bruzzi’s book

Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the

Movies published.1996

Antonia (directed by Marleen Gorris) wins an Oscar for Best Foreign

Language film.

1994 Jane Campion becomes the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at the

Cannes Film Festival with The Piano. The film also wins three Oscars

(Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Supporting Actress, Best

Writing – Original Screenplay) and is nominated for a further five

Oscars (and numerous other awards), including Best Director.

Jackie Stacey’s book Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female

Spectatorship published.1989 Jane Campion’s film

Sweetie released.

1987 Christine Gledhill’s edited collection Home Is Where the Heart Is:Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film

published.

Vivienne Verdoe Roe wins an Oscar for Best Documentary, Short

Subjects for her film Women – for America, for the World (1986).

1986 Charlotte Brunsdon’s edited collection of essays Films for Women

published.

1984 Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp and Linda Williams’ Re-vision:Essays in Feminist Film Criticism published.

1982 Mary Ann Doane’s article ‘Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the

Female Spectator’ published in Screen (23: 3–4).

1981 Laura Mulvey’s article ‘Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and

Narrative Cinema” inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)’

published in Framework.

1979 Sally Potter’s feminist theory film Thriller released.

The first female Prime Minister in Britain elected – Margaret Thatcher.

1977 Laura Mulvey’s film Riddle of the Sphinx continues her work with

Peter Wollen in making feminist theory films.

1976 The Domestic Violence Act (UK) attempts to increase the Courts’

protection of battered wives and gives police powers of arrest for

breaching an injunction in cases of domestic violence.

1975 Laura Mulvey’s essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’

published in Screen.

Work of Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema (ed Claire

Johnston) published.

1974 Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons by Laura Mulvey (co-directed

with Peter Wollen) puts feminist theory into practice.

Jump Cut, quarterly journal with a feminist perspective, launched.

Contraceptives free for all women on the NHS.

Molly Haskell’s book From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment ofWomen in the Movies published.

1973 Claire Johnston’s ‘Women’s Cinema as Counter Cinema’ in

Johnston’s Notes on Women’s Cinema published. First anthology of

feminist film theory.

Season of Women’s Cinema at the National Film Theatre, London.

Toronto Women and Film Festival.

Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream by Marjorie

Rosen, the first book on women and film, published.

1972 Film Comment publishes a filmography of women directors.

Special women’s event at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Take One, Film Library Quarterly and Velvet Light Trap journals all

have special features on women and film.

New York International Festival of Women’s Films.