Women's Pictures Feminism and Cinema

by KUHN, ANNETTE

• ISBN13: 9781859840108
• ISBN10: 1859840108
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-17
• Publisher: Verso
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Summary

This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and practice between the eighties and the nineties. Readers, whether engaged in the making of films, the study of them, or simply the pleasure of viewing them, will appreciate the way in which the author discusses and demystifies the current methods of analysis, including semiotic and psychoanalytical approaches.

The films used as points of discussion are drawn from both mainstream and alternative cinema, institutions which are themselves examined in relation to their production, distribution and exhibition practices.

The thesis proposed by Annette Kuhn is an exciting one: namely, that feminism and cinema, taken together, could provide the basis for new forms of expression, providing the opportunity for a truly feminist alternative cinema in terms of film language, of reading that language and of representing the world.

Author Biography

Annette Kuhn’s books include Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema; Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality; The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality; and Women’s Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. She is lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Glasgow University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Passionate detachment	p. 3
Dominant cinema
The pleasure machine	p. 21
Textual gratification	p. 43
Rereading dominant cinema: Feminism and film theory
Making visible the invisible	p. 69
Trouble in the text	p. 84
The body in the machine	p. 109
Replacing dominant cinema: Feminism and film practice
Real women	p. 131
Textual politics	p. 156
The production of meaning and the meaning of production	p. 178
App. 1 Glossary	p. 197
App. 2 Film availability	p. 200
Notes	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 219
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