women – MLA International Bibliography

193. Website of the Week (WoW) #193: The African Women in the Cinema Project

Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.

http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html

Introduction
www.africanwomenincinema.org
The African Women in the Cinema Project emerged out of my research on African women in visual culture, my desire to find a paradigm for reading images of and by African women, and my own work in videography and as a performance artist. I undertook this project on a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship…

Site includes a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, timeline, related links, and “voices” of African women in cinema from diverse sources.

http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Introduction.html

Website of the Week (WoW) #130: Brune/Blonde: L’Exposition virutelle / Brunette/Blonde: The Virtual Exhibition

First, don’t miss our newest video tutorial: Searching the MLA International Bibliography versus Using the Library’s Home Page Search Function — see our post from Jan. 25!

Now for our Website of the Week (WoW) #130: Brune/Blonde: L”Exposition virutelle / Brunette/Blonde: The Virtual Exhibition

This visually exciting (and bilingual!) website explores the role of women’s hair on film and in art. It includes many video clips from films and interviews with visual artists.

Brune Blonde, l’exposition virtuelle
www.cinematheque.fr
The cinema is a medium that made women’s hair a privileged motif for its aesthetics and its mythology. Heir to painting and literature, it protracted this fascination for women’s hair and its associated gestures.

First, don’t miss our newest video tutorial: Searching the MLA International Bibliography versus Using the Library’s Home Page Search Function — see our post from Jan. 25!

Now for our Website of the Week (WoW) #130: Brune/Blonde: L’Exposition virutelle / Brunette/Blonde: The Virtual Exhibition

This visually exciting (and bilingual!) website explores the role of women’s hair on film and in art. It includes many video clips from films and interviews with visual artists.