Lady cinema. Guida pratica per attivare le tue lenti femministe

When we sit comfortably on the couch to watch a good movie, we want to have fun, be stimulated, immerse ourselves in the lives of others. But how are women portrayed on the big screen? Why does it often seem that female characters are stereotyped and created to please the male gaze? What role do women play behind and in front of the video camera? In order to be fully conscienscious viewers, we should wear a nice pair of feminist lenses. From Alice Guy, director of the first narrative film in 1896, to the New Queer Cinema, passing through the Feminist Film Theory, Lady Cinema is a brilliant guide to the history of women behind and in front of the screen. And even more: it offers many practical tools to evaluate the films we are watching, from the Bechdel test to the Smurfette principle, from the clit test to the rules of inclusiveness, with more than thirty in-depth sheets on films and directors from all over the world not to be missed. The preface by Marina Pierri, author and television critic, is the icing on the cake.