Feminism Without Women examines the operation of postfeminism in popular culture, especially popular film, and in cultural studies. Examining a range of films from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure to Lethal Weapon and Three Men and a Baby, Modleski offers a broad perspective on the future of feminism. In particular, she shows how women as social subjects are once again being relegated to the margins of discourse and society.
Feminism Without Women examines the operation of postfeminism in popular culture, especially popular film, and in cultural studies. Examining a range ...
What stories are women telling about themselves? What are the narratives that shape women's fantasy lives and experiences? How can women use the existing media of film, performance and autobiography to tell their own stories, their own lives, their own fantasies? Offering answers to these questions, this book considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not simply the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told.
What stories are women telling about themselves? What are the narratives that shape women's fantasy lives and experiences? How can women use the exist...
Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine the mastery of the cinematic "master of suspense." The third edition features an interview with the author by David Greven, in which...
Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of...
