Screen LibraryFilm and female consciousness Irigaray, cinema and thinking women /
Film and Female Consciousness explores the representation of female consciousness on-screen and demonstrates the ways in which the thought of Luce Irigaray can be used to address the traditional problems of the objectification of women in cinema as outlined by feminist theory since the 1970s.
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| Language: | English |
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Film and Female Consciousness explores the representation of female consciousness on-screen and demonstrates the ways in which the thought of Luce Irigaray can be used to address the traditional problems of the objectification of women in cinema as outlined by feminist theory since the 1970s. 'Film and Female Consciousness opens up enticing fresh horizons for the feminist and philosophical study of authorship and spectatorship in cinema.' - Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 'Entering into the seriously playful spirit of Luce Irigaray's work, Lucy Bolton shifts the signifier of the cinematic from womenslaughter to women's laughter. Putting the 'close' into close reading, Bolton attends to the haptic strategies by which Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Lynne Ramsay intimate their female protagonists' Irigarayan becoming. Gestural, chromatic, musical, and tactile communion are echoed in Bolton's lucid readings, which will inspire future filmmakers, as well as film theorists, of all genders to enter, like Frannie, Charlotte and Morvern, a hopeful, feminist future.' - Sophie Mayer, author, The Cinema of Sally Potter. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230275690. |
| Carrier Form: | 248 p. : 10 b&w, halftones, 10. |
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9780230275690 9780230308695 : 0230308694 : |
| CLC: | J905.561 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 'Frozen in Showcases': Feminist Film Theory and the Abstraction of Woman The Camera as an Irigarayan Speculum In the Cut: Self-Endangerment or Subjective Strength? Lost in Translation: The Potential of Becoming Morvern Callar: In a Sensory Wonderland Architects of Beauty and the Crypts of Our Bodies: Implications for Filmmaking and Spectatorship Concluding Remarks: The Object is Speaking Bibliography Filmography Discography Notes Index. |