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Author Humm, Maggie.

Title Feminism and film / Maggie Humm
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Feminist Theory, Aesthetics and Film Theory: Mulvey, Kuhn, Kaplan and hooks -- 2. Sight and Sound: Pornography, The Gaze, Klute and Variety -- 3. Cronenberg's Films and Feminist Theories of Mothering -- 4. Author/auteur: Feminist Literary Theory and Feminist Film -- 5. Black Film Theory, Black Feminisms: Daughters of the Dust -- 6. Postmodernism and Orlando -- 7. Practising Feminist Theory
Summary "Feminist theory has been at the forefront of critical analysis for more than two decades. With dazzling insight, Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. Feminism and Film is the first book to apply such a broad range of theory to contemporary film. Humm begins with an in-depth historical survey of contemporary feminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Subsequent chapters examine the most pressing questions posed by feminism about reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Black feminism and "the personal is political" in relation to a variety of mainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust."--Book desc. via amazon.ca
Analysis ALTHUSSER, LOUIS
AUTEUR THEORY
BLACKS IN FILMS
CRONENBERG, DAVID
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991)
DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988)
FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA
Feminism and motion pictures
Feminist film criticism
KAPLAN, E. ANN
KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
KUHN, ANNETTE
MULVEY, LAURA
ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992)
POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA
ROSE, JACQUELINE
STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982)
WOOLF, VIRGINIA
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 200-217
Filmography: pages 218-225
Notes Also issued online
Subject Feminism and motion pictures.
Feminist film criticism.
Feminism in motion pictures
Women in motion pictures.
LC no. 97009542
ISBN 0253211468 (paperback)
0253333342 (cloth)
0748609008 (paperback)