| Description |
1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Theories proper and improper -- The mirror of woman -- Venus of stone -- Mapping the roads not taken -- Woman as caprice -- The seductress |
| Summary |
"Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Michele Le Doeuff the author argures that philosophy is reliant on socio-cultural images, such as the figures of the veiled woman, the femme fatale and the seductress. The author traces the key role played by such images of woman in the theorisations of beauty, art and truth offered by Nietzsche and his successors: Derrida, Kofman and Baudrillard. Importantly, the recognition that images are crucial to theorising means that film images have the capacity to challenge and change previous theoretical models. This is demonstrated by a case study of three films from the Dietrich/Sternberg cycle: The Scarlet Empress, The Devil is a Woman and Shanghai Express. The detailed readings focus on the ways in which Dietrich's glamorous characters challenge the theorisation of woman as a beautiful object, thus offering new ways of conceptualising woman's role as the icon of beauty, art and truth."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-198) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dietrich, Marlene.
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| SUBJECT |
Dietrich, Marlene. fast (OCoLC)fst00010946 |
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Dietrich, Marlene. swd |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Image (Philosophy)
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Feminism and motion pictures.
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Feminism and motion pictures.
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Image (Philosophy)
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Personalisierung
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Filmtheorie
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Frau Motiv
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Film.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
British Film Institute.
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| ISBN |
9781838711344 |
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1838711341 |
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9781839020889 |
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1839020881 |
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9781839020872 |
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1839020873 |
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