Deconstruction, feminism, film / Sarah Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Influence.

Derrida, Jacques.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Examines and critiques Derrida’s work in relation to gender, sexuality and filmIncludes a detailed critique of Derrida’s thinking about gender, sexuality, film and the visualAn active work of film philosophy, performing its general philosophical work through singular close readings Theorises and performs the possibilities of a deconstructive feminist film critical practiceOffers new feminist theories of key concerns of film studies including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the stillPlaces key deconstructive visual texts within their cinematic as well as philosophical contextsThe writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close readings. Employing a dual feminist methodology of critique and generation, this book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida’s thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still. In theory and in practice, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film performs the possibilities of a new twenty-first century feminist spectatorship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations of Works Cited by Jacques Derrida

Introduction: Departing from Proust

CHAPTER ONE Deconstruction, Feminism, Film

CHAPTER TWO Supplanting Spectrality

CHAPTER THREE Feminist Countersignature

CHAPTER FOUR Auto/biography

CHAPTER FIVE How Do I Look?

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3420-7

1-4744-3421-5

OCLC:

1306540622