Film and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415672931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 1688 str.

Sue Thornham; Niall Richardson

Opis

Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that despite 'the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the cinema ...woman as woman is largely absent', the relationship of cinema to the construction of gender identities and gendered pleasures has been a central concern within Film Studies. Bringing together the political concerns of second-wave feminism and the dizzying developments in theorizing about representation, culture, and society, early work-as exemplified by Johnston's writing-changed radically the nature of Film Studies and the issues which it would address. Later scholars attended to concerns about sexuality, drawing on queer theory; and race and ethnicity, often influenced by postcolonialism.

Spis treści

Volume I: Histories and Origins  Part 1: Sociological Approaches  Part 2: Screen Theory  Part 3: Gendered Spectatorship  Part 4: Taking up the Struggle: What Kind of Counter-Cinema?  Volume II: Genre and Star  Part 5: Gendering Genre  Part 6: The Melodrama/‘Woman’s’ Film  Part 7: Horror and the Monstrous Feminine  Part 8: Gender and Comedy  Part 9: The Star and Film Meanings  Volume III: Negotiating Gender  Part 10: Viewing Men  Part 11: Action Hero(in)es  Part 12: Queer(ing) Gender  Part 13: Gender, Race, and Nation  Volume IV Re-visioning Feminism(s)  Part 14: Postfeminism and its Texts  Part 15: Questioning Postfeminism  Part 16: Global Film Feminisms  Part 17: Authorship and Women’s Filmmaking