A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film

by Caroline Bainbridge

Overview

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230553484
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/04/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	223
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Reading the Feminine with Irigaray Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin Screening Parler femme : Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless Orlando and the Maze of Gender Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries Filmography Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Highly Commended in Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize, 2009

'This is a scholarly and important book in feminist film theory and women's cinema. It is eloquent and well written and successfully introduces the ideas of Luce Irigaray to the non-specialist reader. It should be on the reading list for all film studies courses.' - Judges' comments, FWSA Book Prize

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