Thank you Gary for a pleasant take-my-mind-off work assignment. Here are some titles that come to mind:
The under-rated Janis Carter in Framed (1947) but particularly Night Editor (1946): you don't get more cold-blooded fatale than this. (out on DVD) Polly Moran and Marie Dressler in Politics (1931) a Lysistrata story. (Warner Archive) Front Page Woman (1935) with Bette Davis as a journalist competing against men but better still the whole Torchy Blane series now available from Warner Archive. And speaking of series, what about all the Maisie films starring Ann Sothern from Maisie (1939) to Undercover Maisie (1947). TCM shows them occasionally but not commercially out as far as I know. Kay Francis deserves some space: she appeared in the title role of Dr. Monica (1934) and Mary Stevens M.D. (1933) this would be TCM territory What about Barbara Stanwyck who se new DVD box set is either out now or out any minute now.. I wish I had more time. Oksana O. Dykyj Head, Visual Media Resources Faculty of Fine Arts Concordia University Montreal, Canada At 03:53 PM 17/05/2010, you wrote: >Hi all > >As a way of decompressing after the end of the semester, I'm putting >together a goofy videography of UCB video holdings entitled: > >Vamps, Tramps, Hookers, Femmes Fatales and Kick-ass Gurrrls: Transgressive >Women in the Movies > >http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/transgressivewomen.html > >This is admittedly a real grab-bag: includes women crossing sexual >boundaries, sundry violent babes, revenge narratives, madwomen, riot >gurrrrls, super-heroines, what have you... > >What have I left out (besides catwoman from Batman Returns and Lisa >Simpson)? I'm mainly looking for films in which the transgressive woman >plays a central or leading role. > >Have fun! > >Gary Handman >Director >Media Resources Center >Moffitt Library >UC Berkeley > >510-643-8566 >ghand...@library.berkeley.edu >http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > >"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." >--Francois Truffaut > > >VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >issues relating to the selection, evaluation, >acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current >and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It >is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for >video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between >libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
