Amy Villarejo: 4 books
Lesbian Rule
Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or...
Ethereal Queer
Television, Historicity, Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance...
Film Studies
A Global Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age.
Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s...
by Amy Villarejo
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Film Studies: The Basics is a compelling guide to the study of cinema in all its forms. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of recent scholarship, the latest developments in the industry and the explosive impact of new technologies. Core topics covered include:
The...