Feminism and film theory / edited by Constance Penley. - vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies.

The lady doesn't vanish : feminism and film theory / Constance Penley --
The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston --
Dorothy Arzner : critical strategies / Claire Johnston --
Approaching the work of Dorothy Arzner / Pam Cook --
Visual pleasure and narrative cinema ; Afterthoughts on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" inspired by Duel in the Sun / Laura Mulvey --
Rereading the work of Claire Johnston / Janet Bergstrom --
Feminine discourse in Christopher Strong / Jacquelyn Suter --
The popular film as a progressive text--
a discussion of Coma / Elizabeth Cowie --
Paranoia and the film system / Jacqueline Rose --
Enunciation and sexual difference ; Alternation, segmentation, hypnosis : interview with Raymond Bellour--
an excerpt / Janet Bergstrom --
Caught and Rebecca : the inscription of femininity as absence ; Woman's stake : filming the female body / Mary Ann Doane --
India Song/Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert : the compulsion to repeat / Joan Copjec --
The cinema of Lol V. Stein / Elisabeth Lyon.

0415901081 (pbk.) : $12.95 (est.) 0415901073 (hard) : $32.50 (est.)

88006595


Feminism and motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.

PN1995.9.W6 / F45 1988

791.4301