Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
Cineaste › Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, June 2007
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Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema Edited by Antonia Lant, with Ingrid Periz. New York: Verso, 2007. 872 pp., illus. Hardcover: $94.95 and Paperback: $39.95.
"Of all the different industries that have offered opportunities to women, none have given them the chance that motion pictures have." Time, as we might expect the cad to do, has discredited this opinion, ventured by the "scenario and continuity writer"--Clara S. Beranger--in 1919. Beranger's optimism would find itself prey to an easy, if somewhat dejected, irony if voiced today. Despite the respect...See the full content of this document
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