Red velvet seat womens writings on the first fifty years of cinema amazonde antonia lant betty balfour djuna barnes iris barry sarah bernhardt fremdsprachige bucher. The red velvet seat inscribes a continuity between cultural shifts in womanhood across modernity and the cultural gendering of cinemagoing itself where the seat becomes a site heavy with tension the tension produced by a newer art form but also a newer shape through which to practise the subjectivities of class sex and their associated networks of knowledge and power it was in this very seat that women flexed their intelligence their newly won social freedom their avoidance of the . In magisterial scale red velvet seat restores this film culture tovisibility using womens written accounts from the beginnings up to 1950 toun however full evidence of their roles has until nowremained scant and dispersed eclipsed in historical opinion formed through thetexts of men. 2009 red velvet seat womens writings on the first fifty years of cinema quarterly review of film and video vol 27 no 1 pp 74 78. Buy the red velvet seat womens writings on the cinema the first fifty years by antonia caroline lant antonia caroline lant ingrid periz isbn 9781859847220 from amazons book store everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders