Women and Home in Cinema: Form, Feeling, Practice (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television) - Hardcover

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Louise Radinger Field is a filmmaker and writer living in London. She has a PhD in film from the University of Reading.

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This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains imbued with depth, metaphor, and expressivity.

The book studies the films through the lens of four filmmaking processes in particular: découpage, mise-en-scène, sound and editing. Close analysis reveals how filmmakers use these cinematic ‘building blocks’ to shape onscreen worlds charged with emotion and animated by the warp and weft of psychic life.

With its emphasis on film practice as a route into critical reflection, this book will be of interest to filmmakers, film theorists and those who simply want to understand more about how films work.

Louise Radinger Field is a filmmaker and writer living in London. She has a PhD in film from the University of Reading.