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Feminist film theorists : Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed
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Feminist film theorists : Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed

Author: Shohini Chaudhuri
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series: Routledge critical thinkers.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Feminist film theory has been one of the, if not the, most important strands within film theory. Shohini Chaudhuri's book will focus on the work of three leading feminist film theorists - Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman and Teresa De Lauretis, whose working (in keeping with the format for generic RCT volumes) represents key schools of thought or emphases within feminist film theory. Key ideas explored through a  Read more...
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Named Person: Laura Mulvey; Kaja Silverman; Teresa De Lauretis; Barbara Creed; Laura Mulvey; Kaja Silverman; Teresa De Lauretis; Barbara Creed
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Shohini Chaudhuri
ISBN: 0415324327 9780415324328 0415324335 9780415324335 0203357027 9780203357026
OCLC Number: 68133096
Description: x, 148 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: WHY MULVEY, SILVERMAN, DE LAURETIS, AND CREED? Influences --
This book. KEY IDEAS. Beginnings --
The eternal feminine --
Psychoanalysis and feminism --
The tools of film theory --
The male gaze --
Sexual politics --
Lust of the eyes --
The female spectator --
The female voice --
Female confessions --
Fantasies of the maternal voice --
The 'homosexual-maternal fantasmatic' --
Female authorship --
Technologies of gender --
Beyond the paradox of woman --
The technology of sex --
The technology of gender --
Rethinking women's cinema --
Desire in narrative --
Queering desire --
Film and the visible --
Sexual indifference --
Lesian fetishism --
The monstrous-feminine --
The abject --
The archaic mother --
Medusa's head --
The deadly femme castratrice --
Crisis TV --
Masculinity in crisis --
The dominant fiction --
Historical trauma --
The screen and the gaze --
Male masochism --
AFTER MULVEY, SILVERMAN, SE LAURETIS, AND CREED.
Series Title: Routledge critical thinkers.
Responsibility: Shohini Chaudhuri.
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Focusing on the work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that  Read more...

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