CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: Sisters as Artists in the Cinematic Kunstlerroman
1. The Romance of Sisterhood: Little Women and Popular Nostalgia in Contemporary Women's Cinema
2. An Angel at My Table: Sisters, Trauma, and the Making of an Artist as a Young Woman
PART II: Negotiating Sameness and Difference: Sisters in Adolescence
3. Sororal Rites of Passage: Peppermint Soda, Gas Food Lodging, and Welcome to the Dollhouse
4. Sisters, Fathers, and the Modern Ethnic Family: Double Happiness and Eve's Bayou
5. Sororophilia and Matricide: Shared Fantasies in Heavenly Creatures and Sister My Sister
PART III: Loss, Memory, Recognition: Sisters in Adulthood
6. The Internal World of Sisters: Ingmar Berman's The Silence and Cries and Whispers
7. The Politics of Intersubjectivity: The Sister Films of Margarethe von Trotta
Conclusion
Appendix: Filmography
Notes
Index
Photographs follow page 116
