The present volume reunites transdisciplinary studies from numerous experts who investigate questions of construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures by referring to a corpus that stretches from plays of travesty in 18th century opera to non-normative masculinities in recent television series.
Goytisolo, Juan: Disidencias, Barcelona, The Next Generation, ed. Bear Bergman, Berkeley, , p. Bear Bergman, Madrid, But even if her pioneering status is now certain, for decades her name remained obscure. From to , she directed, wrote, and produced nearly one thousand films. But Alice Guy is not only the first female director, she is also a key figure in early French cinema, and therefore cinema itself.
She initially works as a secretary, but quickly learns to perform more technical tasks and gets to know all the clients who came to the Comptoir. Psychological dynamics play a formative role if we consider the fact that Guy began to write her memoire in Switzerland during World War II with the explicit purpose of gaining long overdue recognition for her role in the history of cinema 5. Instead, Guy believed in the story-telling potential of cinema, continuous with the novel and dramatic theater.
Having read widely and done a little amateur theater, she thought that fictional stories would better exploit the power of cinema. This first version — the film was re-filmed by Guy in — is about a woman dressed as a fairy who discovers some babies hidden behind wooden cabbage heads. In the center of the frame the fairy graciously gestures and tip toes toward the first row of cabbages where she finds one little baby and then another.
She then places the babies in front of the cabbages and sees a third on the left side of the frame. But this one, which turns out to be a doll, gets placed further behind the cabbages to indicate that it is not yet mature enough to pick. Gaines distinguishes between the concept of fiction and that of narrative, lamenting the fact that scholars have often considered them interchangeable.
