Feminist Film Theory : : A Reader /

Feminist Film Theory : : A Reader / / Sue Thornham.

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Brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970 Divided into six sections for ease of use: Taking up the Struggle; The Language of Theory; The Female Spectator; Textual Negotiations; Fantasy, Horror and the Body; Re-Thinkin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Thornham, Sue,
MitwirkendeR:
Butler, Judith,
Citron, Michelle,
Clover, Carol J.,
Creed, Barbara,
Doane, Mary Ann,
Gaines, Jane,
Gledhill, Christine,
Haskell, Molly,
Hooks, Bell,
Johnston, Claire,
Kuhn, Annette,
Lauretis, Teresa de,
Lesage, Julia,
Mayne, Judith,
Modleski, Tania,
Mulvey, Laura,
Rich, B. Ruby,
Silverman, Kaja,
Smith, Sharon,
Stacey, Jackie,
Staiger, Janet,
Taylor, Anna Marie,
Walkerdine, Valerie,
Williams, Linda,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Taking up the Struggle
  • Introduction
  • 1.‘The Image of Women in Film: Some Suggestions for Future Research’
  • 2. ‘The Woman’s Film’
  • 3. ‘Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema’
  • 4. ‘The Crisis of Naming in Feminist Film Criticism’
  • Further Reading
  • Part II: The Language of Theory
  • Introduction
  • 5. ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’
  • 6. ‘Caught and Rebecca: The Inscription of Femininity as Absence’
  • 7. ‘Oedipus Interruptus’
  • 8. ‘Lost Objects and Mistaken Subjects’
  • Further Reading
  • Part III: The Female Spectator
  • Introduction
  • 9. ‘Women and Film: A Discussion of Feminist Aesthetics’
  • 10. ‘Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)’
  • 11. ‘Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator’
  • 12. ‘Women’s Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory’
  • Further Reading
  • Part IV: Textual Negotiations
  • Introduction
  • 13. ‘Pleasurable Negotiations’
  • 14. ‘Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy’
  • 15. ‘Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations’
  • 16. ‘Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs'
  • Further Reading
  • Part V: Fantasy, Horror and the Body
  • Introduction
  • 17. ‘Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film’
  • 18. ‘Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection’
  • 19. ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess’
  • Further Reading
  • Part VI: Re-thinking Differences
  • Introduction
  • 20. ‘White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory’
  • 21. ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators’
  • 22. ‘Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film’
  • 23. ‘Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion’
  • Further Reading
  • Copyright Acknowledgements
  • Index

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