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Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham

Feminist Film Theory: A Reader Sue Thornham ebook
ISBN: 0748609598, 9780585159171
Page: 361
Format: pdf
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Laura Mulvey is a feminist theorist who applied psychoanalysis to film theory. With that, I believe it's important to know the history of feminist film theory, and I'm glad that was included in this class. Http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ it's the only film character that allows men to truly identify with a female. The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture. €�Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator.” Feminist Film Theory: a Reader. Mulvey's work was more successful and unique because of her feminist perspective and it laid the foundation for feminist film theory. Which is a fair dissection and may well be true — but it doesn't apply to modern feminist theory, nor does it take into account the canon of the past decade (her book was written in '93). These dissonances "provoke the spectator into actively producing his or her own reading, in order to disambiguate the 'mixed messages' or to untie the knot of the double bind." Each spectator, then, arrives at a reading of the text that is at These modes of interpretation lie squarely within the bounds of classical narratological arugments and types of spectatorship such as the voyeurism of feminist film theory. While Marker's work exists in the space between not only photography and cinema, but also classical film theory and its contemporary counterpart, Primer straddles the representational traditions of film and new media. I'm not saying anyone really remembers the film but I recall reading about it as a feminist horror film at the time.