Library \ Book \ ISBN - 0814782442 \ Call# 791.430 82 THO

Feminist film theory : a reader

English / Editors- Thornham, Sue: (New York: New York University Press, 1999)

Keywords - {Feminism, Motion Pictures, Women, Film Criticism} Status - Checkshelf

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Record Number - {02796}

Contents

Introduction 1
PART I : Taking up the Struggle 7
Introduction 9
1 Sharon Smith : 'The Image of in Film : Some 14
Suggestions for Future Research'
2 Molly Haskell : 'The Woman's Film' 20
3 Claire Johnston : 'Women's Cinema as Counter- Cinema' 31
4 B.Ruby Rich : 'The Crisis of Naming in Feminist
Film Criticism' 41
Further Reading 48

PART II : The Language of Theory 51
Introduction 53
5 Laura Mulvey : 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 58
6 Mary Ann Doane : 'Caught and Rebecca : The Inscription of 70 Femininity as Absence'
7 Teresa de Lauretis : 'Oedipus Interruptus' 83
8 Kaja Silverman : 'Lost Objects and Mistaken Subjects' 97
Further Reading 106

PART III : The Female Spectator 109
Introduction 111
9 Michelle Citron, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne,
B. Ruby Rich, Anna Marie Taylor and the
editors of New German Critique : 'Women
and Film : A Discussion of Feminist Aesthetics' 115
10 Laura Mulvey : 'Afterthoughts on ''Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema" inspired by King Vidor's Duel
in the Sun (1946)' 122
11 Mary Ann Doane : 'Film and the Masquerade :
Theorising the Female Spectator' 131
12 Annette Kuhn : 'Women's Genres : Melodrama, Soap
Opera and Theory' 146
Further Reading 157

PART IV : Textual Negotiations 159
Introduction 161
13 Christine Gledhill : 'Pleasurable Negotiations" 166
14 Valerie Walkerdine : 'Video Replay : Families, Films
& Fantasy' 180
15 Jackie Stacey : 'Feminine Fascinations : Forms of 196
Identification in Star-Audience Relations'
16 Janet Staiger : 'Taboos and Totems : Cultural
Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs' 210
Further Reading 224

PART V : Fantasy, Horror and the Body 227
Introduction 229
17 Carol J. Clover : 'Her Body, Himself : Gender in 234
the Slasher Film'
18 Barbara Creed : 'Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine :
An Imaginary Abjection' 251
19 Linda Williams : 'Film Bodies : Gender, Genre and
Excess' 267
Further Reading 282

PART VI : Re-thinking Differences 285
Introduction 287
20 Jane Gaines : 'White Privilege and Looking Relations:
Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory' 293
21 Bell Hooks : 'The Oppositional Gaze : Black Female
Spectators 307
22 Tania Modleski : 'Cinema and the Dark Continent :
Race and Gender in Popular Film' 321
23 Judith Butler : 'Gender is Burning : Questions of
Appropriation and Subversion' 336
Further Reading 350

Copyright Acknowledgments 353
Index 355

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