Introduction : what do women watch?
After the woman's picture: the new woman's film and the chick flick
The new woman's film in the twenty-first century: the smart-chick film and Rachel getting married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
Anticipating the twenty-first century: "Dirty Harry bathed in a romantic glow?" and The bridges of Madison Country (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Nicole Holofcener as the American female auteur: "keeping it real" walking and talking (1996), Lovely & amazing (2002), Friends with money (2006) Please give (2010), Enough said (2013)
Stardom, celebrity and the new woman's film: Tilda Swinton and the maternal melodrama "winning an Oscar was wasted on me"
Oscars for women and the films of Woody Allen: Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
The girl crush: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013), "The toast of Telluride"
Diversity, the female biopic and the new woman's film: Belle (Amma Asante, 2013)
A past with a future, the ongoing evolution of the new woman's film: From top of the lake (Sundance Channel, 2013) to Fifty shades of grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015)
Coda: feminism redux.