Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Feminist Film Theory and the Postfeminist Era -- 2 Howling for Multitudes -- 3 The Female Authorial Voice -- 4 Beyond Freud and Lacan -- 5 Cathartic Meta-narrative -- 6 Diasporic Imagination and Transcultural Identity -- 7 Representing Representation -- 8 From Text to Context -- 9 Filling the Theory Vacuum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary
"Cinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodox framework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstream movies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on women's filmmaking itself. Integrating systems theory and feminist aesthetics in his close readings of films and screenplays by women, he considers how women engage the process of storytelling in cinema. The importance of these films, he argues, is not merely that they reflect women's perceptions, but that they have the power to reframe experiences and, consequently, to transform life."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index
Notes
Includes some text in Latin
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