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Passionate Detachments An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory

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ISBN-10: 034065225X

ISBN-13: 9780340652251

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sue Thornham

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List price: $42.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Sussex.

Introduction: Passionate detachments
Forerunners and beginnings
Structures of fascination: Ideology, representation and the unconscious
Female spectators, melodrama, and the Woman's film
Negotiating the text: Spectator positions and audience readings
Fantasy, horror, and the body
Re-reading difference(s)
Conceiving lesbian desire
Re-reading difference(s)
Race, representation, and feminist theory
Postmodern scepticism
Notes
Bibliography
Index