Female spectactors [as printed] : looking at film and television /

Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated by approaches which emphasize how meanings are produced in films, and how this process hinges on sexual differences and prileges the masculine. The essays in this collection have been written by feminist film-makers and theorists on both sides of the At...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pribram, E. Deidre
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Verso, 1988.
Series:	Questions for feminism.
Subjects:	Motion pictures and women. Feminism and motion pictures. Motion picture audiences. Women in motion pictures. Television and women. Television viewers. Women on television. Féminisme et cinéma. Femmes au cinéma. Télévision au cinéma. Télévision et femmes. Femmes à la télévision. Cinéma > Publics. Téléspectateurs. Cinéma > Femmes spectateurs. Femmes télespectateurs. Femmes > Au cinéma. Femmes > A la télévision. Cinema films - Feminist viewpoints

Table of Contents:

Feminist film theory : Mildred Pierce and the second World War / Linda Williams
Looking through 'Rear Window' : Hitchcock's traps and lures of heterosexual romance / Jeanne Allen
Women's film production : going mainstream / Michelle Citron
Pleasurable negotiations / Christine Gledhill
The Color Purple : black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo
Gazes/voices/power : expanding psychoanalysis for feminist film and television theory / Jackie Byars
Whose imaginary? The televisual apparatus, the female body and textual strategies in select rock videos on MTV / E. Ann Kaplan
Black women film-makers defining ourselves : feminism in our own voice / Alile Sharon Larkin
Aesthetic and feminist theory : rethinking women's cinema / Teresa de Lauretis.