Feminist Auteurs

Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 AESTHETICS AND THE FEMALE SUBJECT 10 Lizzie Borden's Working Girls, Aparna Sen's Parama, Nelly Kaplan's A Very Curious Girl, Agnes Varda's Vagabond 2 BLACK/WHITE LOOKING POWER 45 Julie Dash's Illusions, Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman, Claire Denis' Chocolat, Marguerite Duras' India Song, Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach 3 GENRE COVERS 77 Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, Assia Djebar's La nouba des femmes du Mont-Chenoua, Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga, Ingrid Sinclair's Flame 4 AURAL SUBJECTIVITIES 109 Maria Novaro's Danz n, Dana Rotberg's Angel of Fire, Moufida Tlatli's The Silences of the Palace, Aparna Sen's Sati 5 DESIRE AND FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY 141 Germaine Dulac's The Smiling Madame Beudet, Suzana Amaral's Hour of the Star, Kathleen Collins' Losing Ground 6 FEMINIST NARRATIVE AESTHETICS 168 Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou, Marleen Gorris' Antonia's Line, Prema Karanth's Phaniyamma, Leontine Sagan's M hen in Uniform Afterword 204 Notes 206 Index 236