Feminist Film Studies : Writing the Woman into Cinema

by McCabe, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781904764038
• ISBN10: 1904764037
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema provides an introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse that grew in cultural significance since the early 1970s to the present. Janet McCabe traces the broad-ranging knowledges produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory. This book thus documents a dynamic critical field, charting the numerous feminist interventions, and critically assesses how the social, political and cultural contexts informed debates and shaped the writing of a feminist film theory.

Author Biography

Janet McCabe is Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College. Dublin. She has published widely on feminist film theory and women's narrative/narration in quality American television

Table of Contents

Introduction

Structuring a Language of Theory

Textual Negotiations: Female Spectatorship and Cultural Studies

Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonialism Modernism

Conceiving Subjectivity, Sexual Difference and Fantasy Differently: Psychoanalysis Revisited and Queering Theory

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