| Description |
vi, 361 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Taking up the Struggle. 1. The Image of Women in Film: Some Suggestions for Future Research / Sharon Smith. 2. The Woman's Film / Molly Haskell. 3. Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema / Claire Johnston. 4. The Crisis of Naming in Feminist Film Criticism / B. Ruby Rich -- Pt. II. The Language of Theory. 5. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey. 6. Caught and Rebecca: The Inscription of Femininity as Absence / Mary Ann Doane. 7. Oedipus Interruptus / Teresa de Lauretis. 8. Lost Objects and Mistaken Subjects / Kaja Silverman -- Pt. III. The Female Spectator. 9. Women and Film: A Discussion of Feminist Aesthetics / Michelle Citron, Julia Lesage and Judith Mayne / [et al.]. 10. Afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946) / Laura Mulvey. 11. Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator / Mary Ann Doane. 12. Women's Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory / Annette Kuhn |
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Pt. IV. Textual Negotiations. 13. Pleasurable Negotiations / Christine Gledhill. 14. Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy / Valerie Walkerdine. 15. Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations / Jackie Stacey. 16. Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs / Janet Staiger -- Pt. V. Fantasy, Horror and the Body. 17. Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film / Carol J. Clover. 18. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection / Barbara Creed. 19. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess / Linda Williams -- Pt. VI. Re-thinking Differences. 20. White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory / Jane Gaines. 21. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators / bell hooks. 22. Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film / Tania Modleski. 23. Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion / Judith Butler |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [350]-351) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures.
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Feminist film criticism.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Thornham, Sue.
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| LC no. |
98032118 |
| ISBN |
0814782434 (cloth) |
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0814782442 (paperback) |
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