A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism by Patricia Mellencamp "Bold, brilliant, radiantly funny and just sizzling with intelligence, A Fine Romance rewrites film history as an action adventure for women. Patricia Mellencamp is one of feminism's most audaciously creative thinkers."--Meaghan Morris, author of The Pirate's Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism A Fine Romance glitters with Mellencamp's legendary wit. It is also deeply serious and wide-ranging, addressing questions of work and money, age and friendship, obsession and addiction, history and the emotions."--Kathleen Woodward, Director, Center for Twentieth Century Studies "This provocative, insightful, and well-written work resonates intelligently and in a most trenchant manner with ideas and questions about the project and direction of feminist film theory. That Mellencamp--a well-known and important contributor to the development of feminist film and television theory--has undertaken to address the issues, and that she has done so with great thoroughness, soul searching, wit and intelligence, will surely position this book as a must-read for film theorists and many other feminists and feminist-influenced scholars and critics."--Elayne Rapping, author of The Culture of Recovery: Making Sense of the Self-Help Movement in Women's Lives Patricia Mellencamp is Professor of Film and Cultural Theory, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. She has published several books, including High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy and Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video, and Feminism.

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