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.
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.
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.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller 1 Part I. Influences and Interlocutors 1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White 31 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda 51 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon 72 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller 91 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller 111 Part II. Intersections and Interventions 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff 137 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery 158 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis 173 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai 200 Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich 221 11. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies 243 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins 256 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika 281 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis 299 Filmography 317 References 321 Contributors 341 Index 345
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller 1 Part I. Influences and Interlocutors 1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White 31 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda 51 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon 72 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller 91 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller 111 Part II. Intersections and Interventions 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff 137 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery 158 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis 173 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai 200 Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich 221 11. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies 243 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins 256 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika 281 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis 299 Filmography 317 References 321 Contributors 341 Index 345
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