Feminist Film Theorists

Focusing on the work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood. It illuminates six key concepts and demonstrates their value as tools for film analysis.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Why Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, and Creed? Key Ideas 1. Beginnings 2. The Male Gaze 3. The Female Voice 4. Technologies of Gender 5. Queering Desire 6. The Monstrous-Feminine 7. Masculinity in Crisis. After Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, Creed. Further Reading Works Cited Index

About the author

Shohini Chaudhuri is Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Film at the University of Essex. Her articles have appeared in Screen, Camera Obscura, and Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics. She has recently published a book called Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia (2005).

Summary

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood.

Product details

• Authors: Shohini Chaudhuri
• Assisted by: Robert Eaglestone (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2006
• EAN: 9780415324328
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32432-8
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers; Critical Thinkers; Routledge Critical Thinkers; Critical Thinkers
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Interdisciplinary studies