The New Woman's Film

Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Do Women Watch? -- 1 After the Woman's Picture: The New Woman's Film and the Chick Flick -- 2 The New Woman's Film in the Twenty-First Century: The Smart-Chick Film and Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008) -- 3 Anticipating the Twenty-First Century: "Dirty Harry Bathed in a Romantic Glow?" and The Bridges of Madison Country (Clint Eastwood, 1995) -- 4 Nicole Holofcener as the American Female Auteur: "Keeping It Real"--Walking and Talking (1996), Lovely & Amazing (2002), Friends with Money (2006), Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013) -- 5 Stardom, Celebrity and the New Woman's Film: Tilda Swinton and the Maternal Melodrama-"Winning an Oscar Was Wasted on Me"--6 Oscars for Women and the Films of Woody Allen: Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) -- 7 The Girl Crush: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012), "The Toast of Telluride"--8 Diversity, the Female Biopic and the New Woman's Film: Belle (Amma Asante, 2013) -- 9 A Past with a Future, the Ongoing Evolution of the New Woman's Film: From Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel, 2013- ) to Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015) -- Coda: Feminism Redux -- Select Bibliography -- Index