Women's Pictures Feminism and Cinema
by KUHN, ANNETTEEdition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 1994-09-17
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Summary
This important book is an introduction to recent feminist interventions and debates around film. . . It will be a key text for anyone interested in feminist cultural politics, in feminism generally, and in film.
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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