A Feminine Cinematics Luce Irigaray, Women and Film

by Bainbridge, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780230553484
• ISBN10: 0230553486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception.

Author Biography

CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Reading the Feminine with Irigaray	p. 8
Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation	p. 32
Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception	p. 61
Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin	p. 77
Screening Parler Femme: Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless	p. 99
Orlando and the Maze of Gender	p. 125
Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano	p. 155
Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries	p. 184
Notes	p. 197
Filmography	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 217
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