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emybookworm's review
5.0
"Mary Anne Doane reworked Joan Riviere's 1929 theory of feminine masquerade in an important 1982 essay, 'Film and the Masquerade', writing '[t]he masquerade, in flaunting femininity, holds it at a distance. Womanliness is a mask which can be worn or removed. The masquerade's resistance to patriarchal positioning would therefore lie in its denial of the production of femininity as closeness...as..imagistic." (page 35).
From Cindy's notes on page 180 from 10/5/94. "I don't want to be purely decorative + make pretty, odd images. If anything, that would be my criticism of much of the old surrealist stuff. It is really about esthetics, which at that time was groundbreaking in itself, but now looks merely beautiful +stylish. Whenever there is a female figure, she's still always beautiful. It was such a macho movement yet even the women artists grolified htier fellow female forms." (page 180)
From Cindy's notes on page 180 from 10/5/94. "I don't want to be purely decorative + make pretty, odd images. If anything, that would be my criticism of much of the old surrealist stuff. It is really about esthetics, which at that time was groundbreaking in itself, but now looks merely beautiful +stylish. Whenever there is a female figure, she's still always beautiful. It was such a macho movement yet even the women artists grolified htier fellow female forms." (page 180)
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