Looking for the Other Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

Name: Looking for the Other Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze
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ISBN: 9780415910170

ISBN-10: 041591017X

ISBN-13: 9780415910170

Edition: 1997

Authors: E. Ann Kaplan

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Kaplan employs Hollywood films about colonial or exotic travel, and those by women filmmakers of colour, to argue that 'male' and 'imperialist' gazes are intertwined in complex ways across cultures.

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Backgrounds: Theories of Nation, Psychoanalysis and the Imperial Gaze



Travel, Travelling Identities and the Look



Theories of Nation and Hollywood in the Contexts of Gender and Race



Hollywood, Science and Cinema: The Imperial and the Male Gaze in Classic Film



Darkness Within: Or, The Dark Continent of Film Noir



Travelling Postcolonialists and Women of Color



Travelling White Theorists: The Case of China



"Can One Know the Other?": The Ambivalence of Postcolonialism in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala



"Speaking Nearby": Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage and Shoot for the Contents



"Healing Imperialized Eyes": Independent Women Filmmakers and the Look



Body Politics: Menopause, Mastectomy and Cosmetic Surgery Films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah


Afterword: Reversing the Gaze, Yes: But Is Racial Inter-Subjective Looking Possible?


References


Index