Issues in Feminist Film Criticism / edited by Patricia Erens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erens, Patricia, 1938- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminist film criticism.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 450 pages)

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1990

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Issues in Feminist Film Criticism brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond. Among the subjects treated are images of women on the screen; questions of film realism; the notion of counter-cinema; the concept of "reading against the grain," the use of psychoanalytic theories; concerns over female spectatorship; women's place in specific genres, especially film melodrama; and issues related to the representation of lesbians and women of color. Authors represented are Lucie Arbuthnot, Linda Artel, Pam Cook, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Mary C. Gentile, Bette Gordon, Florence Jacobowitz, Claire Johnston, E. Ann Kaplan, Annette Kuhn, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne, Sonya Michel, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, B. Ruby Rich, Gail Seneca, Kaja Silverman, Lori Spring, Jackie Stacey, Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman, Susan Wengraf, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Contents:

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.

Seduced and abandoned: recollection and romance in Letter from an unknown 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

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.

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 woman 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

Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski

Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? / Jane Gaines

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253055781

0253055784

OCLC:

1259584360