Print version: Humm, Maggie Feminism and Film Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c1997 ISBN 9780748609086
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE -- 1 Feminist Theory, Aesthetics and Film Theory: Mulvey, Kuhn, Kaplan and hooks -- 2 Sight and Sound: Pornography, The Gaze, Klute and Variety -- 3 Cronenberg’s Films and Feminist Theories of Mothering -- 4 Author/Auteur: Feminist Literary Thoery and Feminist Film -- PART TWO -- 5 Black Film Theory, Black Feminisms: Daughter of the Dust -- 6 Postmodernism and Orlando -- 7 Practising Feminist Theory -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
This is the first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses..