Table of Contents

List of Plates and Figures | ix
Introduction: The Body of Medusa | 1
1 China Girls in the Film Laboratory | 33
2 Gone Girls of Escamontage | 73
3 Gradivan Footsteps in the Film Archive | 102
Afterword | 129
Acknowledgments | 133
Notes | 135
Bibliography | 165
Index | 181
Color plates follow page 84

About the Author

Genevieve Yue is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, the New School. Her essays and criticism have been published in October, Grey Room, The Times Literary Supplement, Reverse Shot, Artforum .com, Film Comment, and Film Quarterly. She is also an independent film programmer and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar.

Reviews

Girl Head is a cogent, imaginative, and important book about the gendered underpinnings of the materials of cinema. It is an important contribution to feminist film history and to film studies more generally.---Catherine Russell, Concordia University

In this surprising and immensely pleasurable read, Yue reveals a hidden history of disappearing female bodies and their link to the materiality of film and its technical processes. Girl Head is a brilliant and original book and sure to be an important reference for media historians and film theorists alike.---Nico Baumbach, Columbia University