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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778872803321

Autore

Humm Maggie

Titolo

Feminism and film / / Maggie Humm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

1-4744-6938-8

0-585-15645-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

791.43082

Soggetti

Feminism and motion pictures

Feminist film criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART ONE -- Chapter 1. FEMINIST THEORY, AESTHETICS AND FILM THEORY: Mulvey, Kuhn, Kaplan and hooks -- Chapter 2. SIGHT AND SOUND: Pornography, The Gaze, Klute and Variety -- Chapter 3. CRONENBERG'S FILMS AND FEMINIST THEORIES OF MOTHERING -- Chapter 4. AUTHOR/ AUTEUR: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY AND FEMINIST FILM -- PART TWO -- Chapter 5. BLACK FILM THEORY, BLACK FEMINISMS: Daughters of the Dust -- Chapter 6. POSTMODERNISM AND ORLANDO -- Chapter 7. PRACTISING FEMINIST THEORY -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. She begins with an in-depth historical survey of contemporary feminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Subsequent chapters examine the issues of reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Black feminism and 'the personal is political' in relation to a variety of mainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of



the Dust.