Gazing outward: the spectrum of feminist reception history. Unmasking the gaze: feminist film theory, history, and film studies / Laura Mulvey -- Les Belles Dames sans merci, femmes fatales, vampires, vamps, and gold diggers: The Transformation and narrative value of aggressive fallen women / Janet Staiger -- "I wanted life to be romantic, and I wanted to be thin" : Girls Growing Up with cinema in the 1930's / Annette Kuhn -- The "true love" of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton / Suzanne Leonard -- "She will never look": film spectatorship, black feminism, and scary subjectivities / Terri Simone Francis -- Rewriting authorship. Lois Weber, Star Maker / Shelley Stamp -- Reading as a woman: the collaboration of Ayako Wakao and Yasuzo Masumura / Ayako Saito -- Women in the nouvelle vague: The lost continent? / Genevieve Sellier -- Investigating an interval: Sarah Bernhardt, Hamlet, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Victoria Duckett -- Vision and visibility: women filmmakers, contemporary authorship, and feminist film studies / Yvonne Tasker -- Black and white: Mercedes de Acosta's glorious enthusiasms / Patricia White -- Excavating early cinema. Vitagraph stardom: constructing personalities for "new" middle-class consumption / Sumiko Higashi -- Clara, Ouida, Beulah, et. al.: women screenwriters in American silent cinema / Giuliana Muscio -- Making more than a spectacle of themselves: creating the militant suffragette |