Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema

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Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema

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Marcelline Block’s Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema breaks new ground in exploring feminist film theory. It is a wide-ranging collection (re)visiting important theoretical questions as well as offering close analyses of films produced in the United States, France, England, Belgium, and Russia. This anthology investigates exciting areas of research for critical inquiry into film and gender studies as well as feminist, queer, and postfeminist theories, and treats film texts from Marguerite Duras to 21st century horror films; from Agnès Varda’s 2007 installation at the Panthéon to the post-Soviet Russian filmmakers Aleksei Balabanov and Valerii Todorovskii; from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof to Sofia Coppola’s postfeminist trilogy; from Chantal Akerman’s “transhistorical, transgressive and transgendered gaze” to the “quantum gaze” in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park; from Hitchcock’s “good-looking blondes” to the career-woman-in-peril thriller, among others. According to the semiotician Marshall Blonsky of the New School University in New York, “given the breadth of the editor’s choices, this volume makes a splendid contribution to feminist and cinematic fields, as well as cultural and media studies, postmodernism, and postfeminism. It lends readers ‘new eyes’ to view canonical and other film texts.” David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, states that this anthology “should be required reading for students and scholars, among other readers interested in the interaction of cinema with contemporary culture.” Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship is prefaced by Jean-Michel Rabaté’s brilliant essay, “Mulvey was the First…”

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Cambridge Scholars
Language
English
Pages
319

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2010, Cambridge Scholars
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Cover of: Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema
Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema
2008, Cambridge Scholars
in English
Cover of: Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema
Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema
2008, Cambridge Scholars
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Table of Contents

'Life finds a way': monstrous maternities and the quantum gaze in Jurassic Park and The thirteenth warrior / Lisa DeTora
Shifting gender(ed) desire in Anne Fontaine's Nathalie
/ Rachel Ritterbusch
Eyes wide shut: kino-eye wide open / M. Hunter Vaughan
Hitchcock's 'good-looking blondes': first glimpses and second glances / Ian Scott Todd
Family resemblances: (en)gendering Claire Denis, Nicole Garcia, and Agnès Jaoui's film titles / Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Return of the female gothic: the career-woman-in-peril thriller / Monica Soare
Mille genres: woman and women, horror film and horror films / Chuck Robinson
A feminist theorization of Sofia Coppola's postfeminist trilogy / Amy Woodworth
Laisse tomber les filles: (post)-feminism in Quentin Tarantino's Death proof / Jeremi Szaniawski
Duras ravaged, ravished
ravishing / Georgiana M.M. Colvile
Varda: The gleaner and the just / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
'No woman would die lilke that': Stage beauty as corrective-counterpoint to Othello / Elizabeth Gruber
Dis-abling the sadistic gaze and deaf prostitutes in Aleksei Balabanov's Of freaks and men and Valerii Todorovskii's Land of the deaf / Izabela Kalinowska
Chantal Akerman's cinematic transgressions: transhistorical and transcultural transpositions, translingualism, and the transgendering of the cinematic gaze / Sharon Lubkemann Allen.

Edition Notes

Preface by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Introduction by Marcelline Block, Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43082
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.W6 S58 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
lxii, 319 p. ;
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23539233M
ISBN 10
1847186645
ISBN 13
9781847186645
LCCN
2009379501
Library Thing
8242231
Goodreads
6408827

First Sentence

"from preface: Why is film theory so organically connected with psychoanalysis? Can this be attributed to Jacques Lacan’s lasting impact on late twentieth century culture, or to intelligent adaptations of his theories of the eye, the gaze and the screen by notable theoreticians like Laura Mulvey, Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek? from introduction: Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema examines films made in the United States, Europe and Russia. Contributors to this volume engage with and readdress classic tenets of feminist film theory. Several chapters explore its interaction with other critical perspectives such as psychoanalytic, queer, disability, postfeminist, quantum, trauma and chaos theories."

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