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Feminism and Film

By Maggie Humm

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781474469388
DOI
10.1515/9781474469388
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32921900 bytes)
Pages
256\252
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 01:55:21

Description

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.

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