Description |
vi, 361 p. ; 26 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-351) and index. |
Contents |
Image of women in film : some suggestions for future research / Sharon Smith -- Woman's film / Molly Haskell -- Women's cinema as counter-cinema / Claire Johnston -- Crisis of naming in feminist film criticism / B. Ruby Rich -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Caught and Rebecca : the inscription of femininity as absence / Mary Ann Doane -- Oedipus interruptus / Teresa de Laurentis -- Lost objects and mistaken subjects / Kaja Silverman -- Women and film : a discussion of feminist aesthetics / Michelle Citron ... [et al.] -- Afterthoughts on "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the sun (1946) / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade : theorising the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Women's genres : melodrama, soap opera and theory / Annette Kuhn -- Pleasurable negotiations / Christine Gledhill -- Video replay : families, films and fantasy / Valerie Walkerdine -- Feminine fascinations : forms of identification in star-audience relations / Jackie Stacey -- Taboos and totems: cultural meanings of the Silence of the lambs / Janet Staiger -- Her body, himself : gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover -- Horror and the monstrous-feminine : an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed -- Film bodies : gender, genre and excess / Linda Williams -- White privilege and looking relations : race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines -- Oppositional gaze : black female spectators / bell hooks -- Cinema and the dark continent : race and gender in popular film / Tania Modleski -- Gender is burning : questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler. |
Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Feminist film criticism.
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Added Author |
Thornham, Sue.
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ISBN |
0814782442 (pbk.) |
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0814782434 (cloth) |
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