Desperately seeking Susan : [screenplay] / [by Leora Barish]. by Barish, Leora

“…Desperately seeking Susan (Motion picture)…”

Desperately seeking Susan / an Orion Pictures release ; a Sanford/Pillsbury production ; a Susan Seidelman film.

The gendered object / edited by Pat Kirkham.

Table of Contents: “…Jackets: engendering the object in Desperately Seeking Susan /…”

Costume and cinema : dress codes in popular film / Sarah Street. by Street, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Ripley: costuming identity -- Desperately seeking Susan: textures of transformation -- Wonderland: the embodiment of 'the real' -- The matrix: fashioning the future.…”

Daughters of desire : lesbian representations in film / Shameem Kabir. by Kabir, Shameem, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Lesbian Spectating of Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse: Desperately Seeking Susan at the Bagdad Cafe Looking for Salmonberries and Fire.…”
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In the company of women : contemporary female friendship films / Karen Hollinger. by Hollinger, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and generic contexts of contemporary female friendship films -- Women's film precedents -- The sentimental female friendship film: Julia, Girl friends, The turning point, Rich and famous, Beaches, Steel magnolias -- The female friendship film and women's development: Desperately seeking Susan, Housekeeping, Mystic pizza -- The political female friendship film: Nine to five, Outrageous fortune, Thelma & Louise, Mortal thoughts, Leaving normal -- The erotic female friendship film: lesbianism in the mainstream: Personal best, Desert hearts, Fried green tomatoes, Go fish -- The female friendship film and women of color: The color purple, Mi vida loca, Passion fish -- Backlash: the anti-female friendship film: The hand that rocks the cradle, Single white female, Poison ivy -- The future of the female friendship film.…”

Daughters of desire : lesbian representations in film / Shameem Kabir. by Kabir, Shameem, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Lesbian desire on the screen: the mother as other in The hunger -- The castration of lesbian desire in cinema: a matter of some agency: Sister George not at her Personal best -- European lesbians in film: reformulating the fetishization of beauty: November moon falls At first sight -- Lesbian desire for bedding lesbians in cinema: plural positionalities: Claire of the moon wants to Go fish...When night is falling -- Lesbian representations from text to screen: reworking the received: The color purple and Fried green tomatoes -- Lesbians come out on celluloid: rage and trauma as subtext: Lianno on Thin Ice listens to Nocturne -- Early cinema lesbians in and out of the closet: the subtext speaks the unspeakable: Rebecca seeks Queen Christina with several Maidens in uniform -- Lesbian spectating of film: extratext, subtext, intertext, interdiscourse: Desperately seeking Susan at the Bagdad cafe looking for Salmonberries and Fire -- The lesbian subtext in cinema: resistant readings: Thelma and Louise.…”

Hollywood and Europe : economics, culture, national identity, 1945-95 / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Steven Ricci.

Table of Contents: “…The French directors' return from Hollywood / Janet Bergstrom -- 'D' for disgusting : American culture and English criticism / Richard Maltby -- 'New wave' interchanges : Céline and Julie and Desperately seeking Susan / Laura Mulvey -- Tinsel and realism / Peter Wollen -- The beautiful and the bad : notes on some actorial stereotypes / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- American friends : Hollywood echoes in the German cinema / Thomas Elsaesser.…”

In the Company of Women : Contemporary Female Friendship Films. by Hollinger, Karen

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Memory and movies : what films can teach us about memory / John Seamon. by Seamon, John G., 1943-

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Madonna : Performance Review / MVD Entertainment Group.

Table of Contents: “…Lucky Star (1:28) -- Childhood and Teen Years (2:34) -- "Holiday" (2:54) -- Early Stage Show (2:20) -- Video Image (3:43) -- "Like a Virgin" (3:05) -- "Desperately Seeking Susan" (3:32) -- "Shanghai Surprise" (2:24) -- "Who's That Girl" (2:22) -- "Like a Prayer" (5:07) -- "Dick Tracy" (3:29) -- "Vogue" (4:47) -- Unconventional Sex Symbol (6:29) -- "Justify My Love" (2:44) -- "Truth or Dare" (2:28) -- "Body of Evidence" (Nudity) (3:56) -- "Evita" (1:51) -- "Ray of Light" (3:14) -- "Beautiful Stranger" (2:07) -- "American Life" (1:41) -- "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (3:59) -- Credits: Madonna: Performance Review (0:57)…”
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Whispering in the Daylight : the Children of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom. by Schriver, Debby

Table of Contents: “…On the Lam and a Missing Body; Chapter 9. ""Desperately Seeking Susan; 2000-2008; Chapter 10. All for One, Tony Alamo's New Jerusalem; Chapter 11. …”
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