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Feminism and Film

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ISBN-10: 0198782349

ISBN-13: 9780198782346

Edition: 2000

Authors: E. Ann Kaplan

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 584
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Notes on ContributorsIntroductionPhase One: Pioneers and Classics
The Modernist ModeIntroductory Notes
Woman's Cinema as Counter-CinemaLaura Mulvey
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Woman as Sign
A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism
Filming the Female Body
Male Subjectivity and Celestial Satire
It's a Wonderful Life
Is the Gaze Male?
Critical Strategies Phase Two
Critiques of Phase One Theories
New Methods Introductory Notes
Lesbian Looks
Female Authorship
The Difficulty of Difference
Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of the Cinema
Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification
Valentino and Female Spectatorship
Masculinity as Spectacle
Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema
Strategies of Coherence: Narrative, Cinema, Feminist Poetics, Yvonne Rainer
The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan Phase Three
Race, Sexuality, and Postmodernism in Feminist Theory Introductory Notes
Speaking Nearby
White Privilege and Looking Relations
Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory
Racism, Representation, and Psychoanalysis Pratibha Parmar
That Moment of Emergence
Sexual Indifference and Lesbian RepresentationPhase Four
Spectatorship, Ethnicity, and Melodrama Introductory Notes
Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator
Women's Genres
Desperately Seeking Difference
The Case of the Missing Mother
Maternal Issues in Vidor's
'Something Else Besides a Mother'
Maternal Melodrama
Tears and Desire
Women and Melodrama in the 'Old' Mexican Cinema
Three Men and Baby
The Carapace that Failed: Ousame Sembene's Xala Further Reading
Index