Cover -- Author Biography -- Library of Gender and Popular Culture -- Published and forthcoming titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter Summary -- 1 Women Writing History Through Film -- Women Writing History: Contexts and Opportunities -- Performative Authorship -- History on Film: from Robert Rosenstone to A League of Their Own -- 'Citable in all its Moments': In-between Spaces and Sewing Machines -- Conclusion -- 2 Reclaiming Undeserving Women: Contemporary Female Biopics -- From Positive Images to Undeserving Subjects: A Place for Women? -- Oppositional Medicine: The Case of Augustine -- Class and Voice: Ambiguity in Monster -- Affect and Ageing: The Iron Lady -- 3 Feminist First-Person Documentaries: Migration, Internment, Reconciliation -- First-Person Documentary: Terms and Terrain -- First-Person Documentary: Women Directors -- Performing Memory -- 4 Revisiting Resistance and Occupation in Holocaust Films -- Complicating Collaboration -- Europeanising the Holocaust -- Reconfiguring Resistance -- Women and Resistance -- Mimicry and Doubling -- Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- 5 Gendering Iraq and Afghanistan War Movies -- The Paradox of Exceptionalism -- Gendering the War 'Back Home' -- Movies from the Periphery: Occupation -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.

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