Feminism and Film

Rating:
Summary: One GREAT chapter on Orlando, but the rest is not so good.
Review: Maggie Humm's book makes an important contribution on feminism and postmodernism in her wonderful chapter on ORLANDO. It is smart, insightful, and will spark great conversation in the classroom. However, the rest of her book reads like a dissertation needing revision. I taught the book in a class on sexuality and gender in film--hoping it would be effective for looking at feminism and film, as its title suggest--but I found it only marginally useful and not very readable.

Rating:
Summary: One GREAT chapter on Orlando, but the rest is not so good.
Review: Maggie Humm's book makes an important contribution on feminism and postmodernism in her wonderful chapter on ORLANDO. It is smart, insightful, and will spark great conversation in the classroom. However, the rest of her book reads like a dissertation needing revision. I taught the book in a class on sexuality and gender in film--hoping it would be effective for looking at feminism and film, as its title suggest--but I found it only marginally useful and not very readable.