Table of Contents
Introduction: What Do Women Watch?
Chapter One: After the Woman’s Picture: The New Woman’s Film and the Chick Flick
Chapter Two: The New Woman’s Film in the Twenty-first Century: The Smart-Chick Film and Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
Chapter Three: Anticipating the Twenty-first Century: "Dirty Harry Bathed in a Romantic Glow?" and The Bridges of Madison Country (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Chapter Four: Nicole Holofcener as the American Female Auteur: "Keeping It Real"–– Walking and Talking (1996), Lovely & Amazing (2002), Friends with Money (2006) Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013)
Chapter Five: Stardom, Celebrity and the New Woman’s Film: Tilda Swinton and the Maternal Melodrama ––"Winning an Oscar Was Wasted on Me"
Chapter Six: Oscars for Women and the Films of Woody Allen: Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
Chapter Seven: The Girl Crush: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013), "The Toast of Telluride"
Chapter Eight: Diversity, the Female Biopic and the New Woman’s Film: Belle (Amma Asante, 2013)
Chapter Nine: A Past with a Future, the Ongoing Evolution of the New Woman’s Film: From Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel, 2013-) to Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015)
Coda: Feminism Redux