The Power of the Image
Essays on Representation and Sexuality
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-415-08460-4 (ISBN)
Description
Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for all students of media and women's studies.
Reviews / Votes
"A shrewd and closely-argued analysis of how dominant images of femininity and sexual difference are constructed." Modern Language Review"Kuhn's thinking is impressive, she is rarely dogmatic, and she is not without the occasional quiet irony." Film Quarterly
"Thoughtful, concise, and highly readable essays." Women's Studies Review
"Polemical writing, which argues for rather than tells about ... In this book, Kuhn continually probes, looking further than individual methods permit." Screen
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-08460-4 (9780415084604)
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Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 Living dolls and 'real women', Frances Borzello, Annette Kuhn, Jill Pack, Cassandra Wedd; Chapter 2 Lawless seeing; Chapter 3 Sexual disguise and cinema; Chapter 4 The Big Sleep; Chapter 5 A moral subject;