Films and feminism a historian writer on women’s history
A review of the documentary Women’s Rights an Informal History by Dan Klughert. It traces U S women from pioneering days through suffrage with period drawings, photos, and voices, noting omissions on Black women and the persistent fight for equality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Stone
Women’s Archives
Radcliffe College
Dan Klughert
America
Mistress Pamela Film Provokes Criticism Over Exploitation
Critics condemn a film loosely based on Pamela for exploiting sexual implications of the master servant dynamic. The reviewer notes 18th century context and moral themes in Richardson's novel, highlighting gratuitous dress, implied rape, and prolonged sexual scenes that reduce a classic work to erotic spectacle.
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Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Richardson
Jim O'Connelly
Ratson
Ann Michelle
Lord Devenish
Julian Barnes
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant Review at New York Film Festival
Fassbinder's Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a provocative theater style drama about power and manipulation. Margit Carstensen portrays Petra a fashion designer whose relationship with a young model exposes control, jealousy and self destruction in a restrained white room setting.
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Petra von Kant
R.W. Fassbinder
Margit Carstensen
Mariane
Petra
Fassbinder
Bertolucci
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