Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema (Short Cuts)

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. Feminist Film Studies: Writing The Woman Into Cinema Provides An Introduction To Feminist Film Theory As A Discourse That Grew In Cultural Significance Since The Early 1970s To The Present.--page 4 Of Cover. Structuring A Language Of Theory -- Textual Negotiations: Female Spectatorship And Cultural Studies -- Race. Ethnicity And Post-colonialism/modernism -- Conceiving Subjectivity, Sexual Difference And Fantasy Differently: Psychoanalysis Revisited And Queering Theory. Janet Mccabe. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 127-136).