Full Description
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.
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
