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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism

by Patricia Erens
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"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." β€”Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Erens brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond.

Contributors include Lucie Arbuthnot, Linda Artel, Pam Cook, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Mary C. Gentile, Bette Gordon, Florence Jacobowitz, Claire Johnston, E. Ann Kaplan, Annette Kuhn, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne, Sonya Michel, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, B. Ruby Rich, Gail Seneca, Kaja Silverman, Lori Spring, Jackie Stacey, Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman, Susan Wengraf, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

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"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." — Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Erens brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond.

Contributors include Lucie Arbuthnot, Linda Artel, Pam Cook, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Mary C. Gentile, Bette Gordon, Florence Jacobowitz, Claire Johnston, E. Ann Kaplan, Annette Kuhn, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne, Sonya Michel, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, B. Ruby Rich, Gail Seneca, Kaja Silverman, Lori Spring, Jackie Stacey, Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman, Susan Wengraf, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

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Twenty-seven previously published essays by US and British feminist film scholars on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking. The collection is structured as a series of debates in four sections--critical methodology: women and representation; rereading Hollywood films; critical methodology: feminist filmmaking; and assessing films directed by women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Twenty-seven previously published essays by US and British feminist film scholars on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking. The collection is structured as a series of debates in four sections--critical methodology: women and representation; rereading Hollywood films; critical methodology: feminist filmmaking; and assessing films directed by women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
January 1, 1991
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pages
480
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780253206107

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