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Feminism and film / edited by E. Ann Kaplan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford readings in feminismPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: xiv, 566 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780198782346
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Contents:
Women's cinema as counter-cinema / Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- 'Woman as sign' / Elizabeth Cowie -- Klute 1 : a contemporary film noir and feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill -- Woman's stake : filming the female body / Mary Ann Doane -- Male subjectivity and the celestial suture : It's a wonderful life / Kaja Silverman -- Is the gaze male? / E. Ann Kaplan -- Dorothy Arzner : critical strategies / Claire Johnston -- Lesbian looks : Dorothy Arzner and female authoriship / Judith Mayne -- The difficulty of difference / David N. Rodowick -- Masochism and the perverse pleasures of the cinema / Gaylyn Studlar -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification : Valentino and female spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- Masculinity as spectacle : reflections on men and mainstream cinema / Steve Neale -- Strategies of coherence : narrative cinema, feminist poetics, and Yvonne Rainer / Teresa de Lauretis -- The orthopsychic subject : film theory and the reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec -- Speaking nearby / Trinh T. Minh-Ha and Nancy N. Chen -- White privilege and looking relations : race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines -- Racism, representation, psychoanalysis / Claire Pajaczkowska and Lola Young -- That moment of emergence / Pratibha Parmar -- Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- Film and the masquerade : theorising the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Women's genres / Annette Kuhn -- Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey -- 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 -- Tears and desire : women and melodrama in the 'old' Mexican cinema / Ana M. Lp̤ez -- Three men and Baby M / Tania Modleski -- The carapace that failed : Ousmane Sembene's Xala / Laura Mulvey.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notes and including further readings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women's cinema as counter-cinema / Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- 'Woman as sign' / Elizabeth Cowie -- Klute 1 : a contemporary film noir and feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill -- Woman's stake : filming the female body / Mary Ann Doane -- Male subjectivity and the celestial suture : It's a wonderful life / Kaja Silverman -- Is the gaze male? / E. Ann Kaplan -- Dorothy Arzner : critical strategies / Claire Johnston -- Lesbian looks : Dorothy Arzner and female authoriship / Judith Mayne -- The difficulty of difference / David N. Rodowick -- Masochism and the perverse pleasures of the cinema / Gaylyn Studlar -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification : Valentino and female spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- Masculinity as spectacle : reflections on men and mainstream cinema / Steve Neale -- Strategies of coherence : narrative cinema, feminist poetics, and Yvonne Rainer / Teresa de Lauretis -- The orthopsychic subject : film theory and the reception of Lacan / Joan Copjec -- Speaking nearby / Trinh T. Minh-Ha and Nancy N. Chen -- White privilege and looking relations : race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines -- Racism, representation, psychoanalysis / Claire Pajaczkowska and Lola Young -- That moment of emergence / Pratibha Parmar -- Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- Film and the masquerade : theorising the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Women's genres / Annette Kuhn -- Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey -- 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 -- Tears and desire : women and melodrama in the 'old' Mexican cinema / Ana M. Lp̤ez -- Three men and Baby M / Tania Modleski -- The carapace that failed : Ousmane Sembene's Xala / Laura Mulvey.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and the first Director of the Humanities Institute, State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is also a widely published author.

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