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Book SynopsisBrings together a variety of writings and methodologies by US and British feminist film scholars.
Trade Review"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Patricia Erens
I. Critical Methodology: Women and Representation
Introduction
Positive Images
Screening Women's Films
Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf
There's More to a Positive Image Than Meets the Eye
Diane Waldman
The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh
Pam Cook and Claire Johnston
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey
Film and the Masquerade
Theorizing the Female Spectator
Mary Ann Doane
Hitchock, Feminism, and the Patriarchal Unconscious
Tania Modleski
Women and Respresentation
Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure?
Jane Gaines
II. Rereading Hollywood Films
Introduction
Gentlemen Consume Blondes
Maureen Turim
Pre-text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca
The Case of the Missing Mother
Maternal Issues in Vidor's Stella Dallas
E. Ann Kaplan
"Something Else Besides a Mother"
Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama
Linda Williams
Seduced and Abandoned
Recollection and Romance in Letter from an Unkown Woman
Lucy Fischer
Illicit Pleasures
Feminist Spectators and Personal Best
Elizabeth Ellsworth
White Privilege and Looking Relations
Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory
Jane Gaines
III. Critical Methodology: Feminist Filmmaking
Introduction
The Political Aesthetics of the Feminist Documentary Film
Julia Lesage
Feminism, Film, and Public History
Sonya Michel
Textual Politics
Annette Kuhn
In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism
B. Ruby Rich
Rethinking Women's Cinema Aesthetics and Feminist Theory
Teresa de Lauretis
Dis-Embodying the Female Voice
Kaja Silverman
IV. Assessing Films Directed by Women
Introduction
Images and Women
Robin Wood
Unspoken and Unsolved Tell Me a Riddle
Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring
Desperately Seeking Difference
Jackie Stacey
Female Narration, Women's Cinema
Helke Sander's The All-Round Reduced Personality/Redupers
Judith Mayne
Feminist or Tendentious?
Marleen Gorris's A Question of Silence
Mary C. Gentile
Anti-Porn
Soft Issue, Hard World
B. Ruby Rich
Variety
The Pleasure in Looking
Bette Gordon
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
