And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage, and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence, Bagdad Caf?, and Sweetie and the Virgin Machine.

《镜裂》探索了当代女性主义电影的政治和乐趣。追溯女权主义导演创造另类电影形式的生产方式，Anneke Smelik强调了女权主义电影的核心问题：作者、视角、隐喻、蒙太奇和过度形象。在理论与电影的连续镜像博弈中，本研究解释了这些电影技巧是如何积极、肯定地表现女性主体性的。在被考虑的电影中有《沉默的问题》、《巴格达咖啡馆》和《甜心与处女机器》。