| Description |
xiv, 566 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Oxford readings in feminism |
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Oxford readings in feminism.
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| Contents |
Phase One: Pioneers and Classics: The Modernist Mode -- 1. Woman's Cinema as Counter-Cinema / Claire Johnston -- 2. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey -- 3. Woman as Sign / Elizabeth Cowie -- 4. Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism / Christine Gledhill -- 5. Woman's Stake: Filming the Female Body / Mary Ann Doane -- 6. Male Subjectivity and Celestial Satire: It's a Wonderful Life / Kaja Silverman -- 7. Is the Gaze Male? / E. Ann Kaplan -- 8. Dorothy Arzner: Critical Strategies / Claire Johnston -- |
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Phase Four: Spectatorship, Ethnicity, and Melodrama -- 21. Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- 22. Women's Genres / Annette Kuhn -- 23. Desperately Seeking Difference / Jackie Stacey -- 24. The Case of the Missing Mother: Maternal Issues in Vidor's Stella Dallas / E. Ann Kaplan -- 25. 'Something Else Besides a Mother': Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama / Linda Williams -- 26. Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the 'Old' Mexican Cinema / Ana M. Lopez -- 27. Three Men and Baby M / Tania Modleski -- 28. The Carapace that Failed: Ousame Sembene's Xala / Laura Mulvey |
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Phase Three: Race, Sexuality, and Postmodernism in Feminist Theory -- 16. Speaking Nearby / Trinh T. Minh-ha and Nancy N. Chen -- 17. White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory / Jane Gaines -- 18. Racism, Representation, and Psychoanalysis / Claire Pajaczkowska, and Lola Young -- 19. That Moment of Emergence / Pratibha Parmar -- 20. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- |
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Phase Two: Critiques of Phase One Theories: New Methods -- 9. Lesbian Looks: Dorothy Arzner and Female Authorship / Judith Mayne -- 10. The Difficulty of Difference / David N. Rodowick --11. Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of the Cinema / Gaylyn Studlar -- 12. Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- 13. Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema / Steve Neale -- 14. Strategies of Coherence: Narrative, Cinema, Feminist Poetics, Yvonne Rainer / Teresa de Lauretis -- 15. The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec -- |
| Summary |
"This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline during these years; reprinting influential 1970s pioneering essays tracing the ensuing debates and challenges to key theories that shaped this field in the next two decades. Kaplan details the Euro-American contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of French, German, and American intellectual movements on feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notes and including further readings." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-559) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures.
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Feminist film criticism.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Kaplan, E. Ann.
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| LC no. |
00038594 |
| ISBN |
0198782349 (paperback) |
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