Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham

Feminist Film Theory: A Reader



Feminist Film Theory: A Reader book




Feminist Film Theory: A Reader Sue Thornham ebook
Page: 361
ISBN: 0748609598, 9780585159171
Format: pdf
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press


Doane, Mary Ann (1987) The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Bloomington and Indianapolis IN: Indiana University Press). Elizabeth Cowie, "Women, Representation and the Image", Screen Education, 3, 1977. I've been reading some feminist film theory lately, and came upon an interesting tidbit about Laura Mulvey (best known for bringing 'the gaze' to film critique). | The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories. King teaches Film Studies and her fields of specialty include American cinema, film theory, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist film theory and criticism. Last week I was looking for Passionate detachments: an introduction to feminist film theory which appears to have completely vanished since it was returned a couple of weeks ago. Posted on March 8, 2012 by princesscowboy. The theory of Freud, Lacan and their successors inspired the psychoanalytic direction of feminist film theory that initiated in the 1970s with Laura Mulvey's “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. When I first shared the title of this book to my ( straight) friend . I just 'self-archived' a pre-publication version of an article of mine finally published as ''Secret Agents: Feminist Theories of Women's Film Authorship', Feminist Theory Vol. This panel looks at the several Haynes' films and their intertexts from a range of scholarly perspectives--star studies, fan culture, feminist theory, and new historicism. The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television A glbtq Encyclopedia : Cleis Press Trade (#23), film schools (#38), and censorship (#48), to cultural phenomena like fan magazines (#31), television (#63), and feminist film theory (#86), the book blends the illuminating factuality of an encyclopedia with the strong point of view of a . I would frequently have 8+ pleasurable reading books out while having books for my course out, now I can't take out anywhere near the amount that I'd like to (and I've paid for – with my taxes AND my student loan!). The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television by Claude J. Mary Anne Doane, "Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator" in Sue Thornham (ed.), Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. Professor Caryl Flinn teaches film theory and music at the University, and she's particularly drawn to media's mix with feminist theory. In this way, an implied or imagined 'textual' author/director ( Caughie, 1981, following Booth, 1961), gradually began to be foregrounded, often unconsciously or inadvertently, on the basis of 'a textual indeterminacy which [took] shape in the reading [or critical] process' (Stoddart, 1995: 47). A sexual difference-based analytical theory for feminist intent, and then by demonstrating how a psychoanalytic reading of a film can actually pervert the potential for a film deconstruction that could result in productive conclusions for feminist film and gender theory. Primarily in terms of its interventions in the queer male archive, Julia re- positions the female characters to the center of her reading: their sexual interest in mediated queer male relationships and their public identifications with the bisexual glam idols ambivalently parallel the main character, Arthur. Each week there has been a concept in feminist film theory and or gender studies that we have explored through film, lecture notes, and class discussion.