"Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its…
"The Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women#x19;s film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze."--The publisher
"The Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women#x19;s film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze."--The publisher.
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women's films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as …
What is marriage? Can a relationship dedicated to equality, friendship, and mutual education flower in an atmosphere of romance? What are the paths between loving another and knowing another? Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these question…
Since the early 70s, film theory has focused on melodrama as a particularly challenging genre. Feminism, in particular, has claimed a stake in re-examination of the form, raising many critical questions about the relation between gender and culture. This collection contains the …
