Feminism and Film (Oxford Readings in Feminism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198782349 ISBN 13: 9780198782346

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline during these years; reprinting influential 1970s pioneering essays tracing the ensuing debates and challenges to key theories that shaped this field in the next two decades. Kaplan details the Euro-American contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of French, German, and American intellectual movements on feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notes and including further readings.

About this title

About the Author:

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and the first Director of the Humanities Institute, State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is also a widely published author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198782349
• ISBN 13: 9780198782346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 584
• Editor: Kaplan E. Ann