Review of Murray Pomerance's “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. Gender in film at the end of the twentieth century” (SUNY Press: New York, 2001)

Abstract

With the ever increasing interest in cultural (re)presentations of gender, the body and sexuality, Ladies & Gentlemen should find a warm reception and wide readership. The most remarkable aspect of this collection of essays is the enormous variety of geographical, theoretical and personal prisms through which films, film genres, filmmakers and actors/actresses are discussed, as well as the different formal and social concerns of analysis which the chapters cover. Though there is no way of doing each of the chapters justice, the following outline will hopefully delineate the complexity of concerns addressed.