(P/B) ISSUES IN FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM

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Erens brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond.(from the publisher)

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Acknowledgments
Introduction (Patricia Erens)
I. Critical Methodology: Women and Representation
Introduction
Positive Images
Screening Women's Films
(Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf)
There's More to a Positive Image Than Meets the Eye
(Diane Waldman)
The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh
(Pam Cook and Claire Johnston)
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
(Laura Mulvey)
Film and the Masquerade
Theorizing the Female Spectator
(Mary Ann Doane)
Hitchock, Feminism, and the Patriarchal Unconscious
(Tania Modleski)
Women and Respresentation
Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure?
(Jane Gaines)
II. Rereading Hollywood Films
Introduction
Gentlemen Consume Blondes
(Maureen Turim)
Pre-text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca)
The Case of the Missing Mother
Maternal Issues in Vidor's Stella Dallas
(E. Ann Kaplan)
"Something Else Besides a Mother": Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama
(Linda Williams)
Seduced and Abandoned: Recollection and Romance in Letter from an Unkown Woman (Lucy Fischer)
Illicit Pleasures: Feminist Spectators and Personal Best
(Elizabeth Ellsworth)
White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory
(Jane Gaines)
III. Critical Methodology: Feminist Filmmaking
Introduction
The Political Aesthetics of the Feminist Documentary Film
(Julia Lesage)
Feminism, Film, and Public History
(Sonya Michel)
Textual Politics
(Annette Kuhn)
In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism
(B. Ruby Rich)
Rethinking Women's Cinema Aesthetics and Feminist Theory
(Teresa de Lauretis)
Dis-Embodying the Female Voice
(Kaja Silverman)
IV. Assessing Films Directed by Women
Introduction
Images and Women
(Robin Wood)
Unspoken and Unsolved
Tell Me a Riddle
(Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring)
Desperately Seeking Difference
(Jackie Stacey)
Female Narration, Women's Cinema
Helke Sander's The All-Round Reduced
Personality/Reducers
(Judith Mayne)
Feminist or Tendentious?
Marleen Gorris's A Question of Silence
(Mary C. Gentile)
Anti-Porn
Soft Issue, Hard World
(B. Ruby Rich)
Variety
The Pleasure in Looking
(Bette Gordon)
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index