by Diane Carson contributions by Linda Dittmar and Janice Welsch
University of Minnesota Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-8166-2273-3 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.W6M82 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43015082
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Dittmar,
Linda
Welsch,
Janice R.
Carson,
Diane
Part I.
Perspectives
In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism
Rich,
B. Ruby
Feminist Film Theory and Criticism
Mayne,
Judith
Feminism and Film History
Petro,
Patrice
Psychoanalysis and Feminist Film Theory: The Problem of Sexual Difference and Identity
Walker,
Janet
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Female-Oriented Melodramas of the 1950s
Byars,
Jackie
Image and Voice: Approaches to Marxist-Feminist Criticism
Gledhill,
Christine
Narrative Is Narrative: So What Is New?
Cartwright,
Lisa
Fonoroff,
Nina
Rethinking Women's Cinema: Aesthetics and Feminist Theory
Lauretis,
Teresa de
Bakhtin, Language, and Women's Documentary Filmmaking
Welsch,
Janice R.
White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory
Gaines,
Jane
The Politics of Film Canons
Staiger,
Janet
Part II.
Practice
To Be Seen but Not Heard: The Awful Truth
Carson,
Diane
The Marrying Kind: Working-Class Courtship and Marriage in 1950s Hollywood
Smith,
Judith E.
Contradiction and Viewing Pleasure: The Articulation of Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Sayonara
Marchetti,
Gina
Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the “Old” Mexican Cinema
López,
Ana M.
Missing in Action: Notes on Dorothy Arzner
Houston,
Beverle
Is China the End of Hermeneutics?; or, Political and Cultural Usage of Non-Han Women in Mainland Chinese Films
Yau,
Esther C. M.
The Production of Third World Subjects for First World Consumption: Salaam Bombay and Parama
Arora,
Poonam
Portrait(s) of Teresa: Gender Politics and the Reluctant Revival of Melodrama in Cuban Film
Burton-Carvajal,
Julianne
Rehearsing Feminism: Women/History in The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter and Swing Shift
White,
Mimi
“A Queer Feeling When I Look at You”: Hollywood Stars and Lesbian Spectatorship in the 1930s
Weiss,
Andrea
The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film
Straayer,
Chris
A Call for Militant Resistance
hooks,
bell
Aspects of Black Feminist Cultural Ideology in Films by Black Women Independent Artists
Gibson-Hudson,
Gloria
Telling Family Secrets: Narrative and Ideology in Suzanne, Suzanne by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch
Smith,
Valerie
The Articulating Self: Difference as Resistance in Black Girl, Ramparts of Clay, and Salt of the Earth
Dittmar,
Linda
Women's Voices in Third World Cinema
Lawrence,
Amy
Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises
Rhodes,
Lis
Sparrow,
Felicity
A Jury of Their Peers: Questions of Silence, Speech, and Judgment in Marleen Gorris's A Question of Silence
Williams,
Linda
Part III.
Course Files
Feminist Film Theory/Criticism in the United States
Welsch,
Janice R.
Women Filmmakers
Carson,
Diane
Women of Color: No Joy in the Seduction of Images
Freydberg,
Elizabeth Hadley
Black Women in American Films: A Thematic Approach
Stubbs,
Frances
Freydberg,
Elizabeth Hadley
Latin American and Caribbean Women in Film and Video