Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema; Is the gaze male?; Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936); Fetishism and the repression of Motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932); The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946); Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977); The independent feminist film; The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA
Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972)Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane (The German Sisters) (1981); The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers and Film about a Woman Who(1972 4); The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971 81); The
Summary
Ann Kaplan takes four films from different decades and analyses the traditional ways in which women have been represented in the cinema, pointing out the recurring patterns within patriarchal images that serve to objectify and degrade
