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Book SynopsisThis volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, it presents the range of theoretical, critical, and educational directions open to feminist students of film.
Table of ContentsPart I: Perspectives in the name of feminist film criticism, Ruby Rich; feminist film theory and criticism, Judith Mayne; feminism and film history, Patrice Petro; the problem of sexual difference and identity - psychoanalysis and feminist film theory, Janet Walker; re-reading psychoanalysis for feminist film studies, Jackie Byars; image and voice - approaches to Marxist-feminist criticism, Christine Gledhill; narrative is narrative - so what is new?, Lisa Cartwright and Nina Fonoroff; rethinking women's cinema - aesthetics and feminist theory, Teresa de Lauretis; Bakhtin, language, and women's documentary film-making, Janice Welsch; white privilege and looking relations - race and gender in feminist film theory, Jane Gaines; the politics of film canons, Janet Staiger. Part II: Practice the awful truth, Diane Carson; the marrying kind - working-class courtship and marriage in post-World War II films. (part contents)
