The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

Overview

A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of that particular prop in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view? Or is it a gateway to the past and the future, and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the roles that woman are forced to play in society? It's an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 30, 2015

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

Mark Rappaport

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt4708984