Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema

by Janet McCabe

Overview

An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231503006
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/19/2005
Series:	Short Cuts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	574 KB

About the Author

Janet McCabe is a lecturer in film studies at Trinity College, Dublin. She writes on feminist film theory and women's narrative/narration in quality American television.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Structuring a Language of Theory
2. Textual Negotiations: Female Spectatorship and Cultural Studies
3. Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonialism Modernism
4. Conceiving Subjectivity, Sexual Difference and Fantasy Differently: Psychoanalysis Revisited and Queering Theory