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Reframing Todd Haynes
Feminism’s Indelible Mark
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2022
About this book
This volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional position as a director of women’s films.
Author / Editor information
Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The X-Files.
Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.
Julia Leyda is a Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.
Reviews
“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.”
-- Christine Vachon
“Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.”
-- Mary Ann Doane, author of Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema
“Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.”
-- Jean-Thomas Tremblay Los Angeles Review of Books
“The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.”
-- Edward Jackson US Studies Online
"An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
-- J. I. Deutsch Choice
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Feminism’s Indelible Mark
1 - Part I. Influences and Interlocutors
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1. Lesbian Reverie
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2. Playing with Dolls
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3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore
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4. Oh, the Irony
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5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”
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6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”
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7. “All the Cake in the World” Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce
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8. The Politics of Disappointment
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9. All That Whiteness Allows
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10. Written on the Screen
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11. It’s Not TV, It’s Mildred Pierce
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12. The Incredible Shrinking Star
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13. Having a Ball with Dottie
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14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan
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Filmography
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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