Issues In Feminist Film Criticism

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xi INTRODUCTION / Patricia Erens = xv Ⅰ. Critical Methodology: Women and Representation Introduction = 2 Positive Images: Screening Women’s Films / Linda Artel ; Susan Wengraf = 9 There’s More to a Positive Image Than Meets the Eye / Diane Waldman = 13 The Place of Woman in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook ; Claire Johnston = 19 Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Laura Mulvey = 28 Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator / Mary Ann Doane = 41 Hitchcock, Feminism, and the Patriarchal Unconscious / Tania Modleski = 58 Women and Representation: Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure? / Jane Gaines = 75 Ⅱ. Rereading Hollywood Films Introduction = 94 Gentlemen Consume Blondes / Maureen Turim = 101 Pre-text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Lucie Arbuthnot ; Gail Seneca = 112 The Case of the Missing Mother: Maternal Issues in Vidor’s Stella Dallas / E. Ann Kaplan = 126 “Something Else Besides a Mother”: Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama / Linda Williams = 137 Seduced and Abandoned: Recollection and Romance in Letter from an Unknown Woman / Lucy Fischer = 163 Illicit Pleasures: Feminist Spectators and Personal Best / Elizabeth Ellsworth = 183 White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory / Jane Gaines = 197 Ⅲ. Critical Methodology: Feminist Filmmaking Introduction = 216 The Political Aesthetics of the Feminist: Documentary Film / Julia Lesage = 222 Feminism, Film, and Public History / Sonya Michel = 238 Textual Politics / Annette Kuhn = 250 In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism / B. Ruby Rich = 268 Rethinking Women’s Cinema: Aesthetics and Feminist Theory / Teresa de Lauretis = 288 Dis-Embodying the Female Voice / Kaja Silverman = 309 Ⅳ. Assessing Films Directed by Women Introduction = 330 Images and Women / Robin Wood = 337 Unspoken and Unsolved: Tell Me a Riddle / Florence Jacobowitz ; Lori Spring = 353 Desperately Seeking Difference / Jackie Stacey = 365 Female Narration, Women’s Cinema: Heike Sander’s The All-Round Reduced Personality／Redupers / Judith Mayne = 380 Feminist or Tendentious?: Marleen Gorris’s A Question of Silence / Mary C. Gentile = 395 Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World / B. Ruby Rich = 405 Variety: The Pleasure in Looking / Bette Gordon = 418 GLOSSARY = 423 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY = 425 INDEX = 439

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