Feminism and Film

This is the first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses.

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Main Author: Humm, Maggie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1997
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART ONE
  • 1 Feminist Theory, Aesthetics and Film Theory: Mulvey, Kuhn, Kaplan and hooks
  • 2 Sight and Sound: Pornography, The Gaze, Klute and Variety
  • 3 Cronenberg's Films and Feminist Theories of Mothering
  • 4 Author/Auteur: Feminist Literary Thoery and Feminist Film
  • PART TWO
  • 5 Black Film Theory, Black Feminisms: Daughter of the Dust
  • 6 Postmodernism and Orlando
  • 7 Practising Feminist Theory
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index