| Description |
ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Reading the Feminine with Irigaray -- 2. Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation -- 3. Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception -- 4. Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin -- 5. Screening Parler Femme: Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless -- 6. Orlando and the Maze of Gender -- 7. Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano -- 8. Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries |
| Summary |
"Drawing on the work of philiosopher Luce Irigaray, this groundbreaking study intervenes in the debate around women and film. Women's films can be seen as providing a new arena for the exploration of sexual difference and patterns of representation and spectatorship. This timely book analyses films such as The Piano, Orlando, Antonia's Line and The Silences of the Palace to make the case that a feminine cinematics is now emerging through the scene of women's filmmaking. Caroline Bainbridge moves beyond the framework of textual analysis by making a compelling case for the importance of contextual elements in contemporary women's cinema, foregrounding issues of production, direction and reception."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Irigaray, Luce.
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Irigaray, Luce, 1939-
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Irigaray, Luce -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Motion pictures and women.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Feminist films -- History and criticism.
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Feminist film criticism.
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| LC no. |
2008024576 |
| ISBN |
9780230553484 hardback |
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0230553486 hardback |
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