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Feminist film studies : writing the woman into cinema / Janet McCabe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCabe, Janet.
- Series:
- Short cuts (London, England)
- Short cuts series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Feminist film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wallflower, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Woman is Not Born But Becomes a Woman; 1 Structuring a Language of Theory; 2 Textual Negotiations: Female Spectatorship and Cultural Studies; 3 Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonialism Modernism; 4 Conceiving Subjectivity, Sexual Difference and Fantasy Differently: Psychoanalysis Revisited and Queering Theory; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-136).
- ISBN:
- 9780231503006
- 0231503008
- OCLC:
- 818857822
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