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Tables of Contents for Feminist Film Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
7
Part I: Taking up the Struggle
7
44
Introduction
9
5
`The Image of Women in Film: Some Suggestions for Future Research'
14
6
Sharon Smith
`The Woman's Film'
20
11
Molly Haskell
`Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema'
31
10
Claire Johnston
`The Crisis of Naming in Feminist Film Criticism'
41
10
B. Ruby Rich
Further Reading
48
3
Part II: The Language of Theory
51
58
Introduction
53
5
`Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
58
12
Laura Mulvey
`Caught and Rebecca: The Inscription of Femininity as Absence'
70
13
Mary Ann Doane
`Oedipus Interruptus'
83
14
Teresa de Lauretis
`Lost Objects and Mistaken Subjects'
97
12
Kaja Silverman
Further Reading
106
3
Part III: The Female Spectator
109
50
Introduction
111
4
`Women and Film: A Discussion of Feminist Aesthetics'
115
7
Michelle Citron
Julia Lesage
Judith Mayne
B. Ruby Rich
Anna Marie Taylor
`Afterthoughts on ``Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946)'
122
9
Laura Mulvey
`Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator'
131
15
Mary Ann Doane
`Women's Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory'
146
13
Annette Kuhn
Further Reading
157
2
Part IV: Textual Negotiations
159
68
Introduction
161
5
`Pleasurable Negotiations'
166
14
Christine Gledhill
`Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy'
180
16
Valerie Walkerdine
`Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations'
196
14
Jackie Stacey
`Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs'
210
17
Janet Staiger
Further Reading
224
3
Part V: Fantasy, Horror and the Body
227
58
Introduction
229
5
`Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film'
234
17
Carol J. Clover
`Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection'
251
16
Barbara Creed
`Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess'
267
18
Linda Williams
Further Reading
282
3
Part VI: Re-thinking Differences
285
68
Introduction
287
6
`White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory'
293
14
Jane Gaines
`The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators'
307
14
bell hooks
`Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film'
321
15
Tania Modleski
`Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion'
336
17
Judith Butler
Further Reading
350
3
Copyright Acknowledgements
353
2
Index
355