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| Author | Molly Haskell |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | New English Library (Reprint by University of Chicago Press) |
Publication date | 1974 (revised 1987) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-226-31885-0 |
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies is a 1974 book (revised and reissued in 1987 and 2016) by feminist film critic Molly Haskell (born 1939). It was one of the first books to chronicle women's images in film. Along with Marjorie Rosen's Popcorn Venus and Joan Mellen's Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film, it typifies the first feminist expeditions into film history and criticism, adopting the "image of woman" approach. Haskell compared the portrayal of women on-screen to real life women off-screen to determine if the representation of women in Hollywood cinema was accurate.[1]
- ^ Hollinger, Karen (1998). In the Company of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0816631773.