Is a film inherently lesbian because lesbians make it? More generally, can women in our society relate to women "on their own terms"? The filmmakers in their collaboration may have partially achieved such a relation, but they did not necessarily intend to portray a "dynamic of women relating to women on their own terms" in the film. Thus the film shows an understanding - missing from most films that touch on lesbian feelings - of the dynamic of women relating to women on their own terms (p.
“One of the few films to have an inherently gay sensibility, it is also one of the few to be written, produced, and directed by women. MÄDCHEN, made in pre-war Weimar Germany, concerns the tortured relation between a student and her female teacher at a private school for the daughters of Prussian army officers. Here, my growing frustration with his book crystallized into an understanding of what was wrong with it. Some sixty-odd pages into his book, Vito Russo comments on Leontine Sagan's classic MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. by Martha Fleming JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1983, 2005
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