Feminist Film Theory : A Classical Reader

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