
Female Spectators
Looking at Film and Television
E. Deidre Pribram(Editor)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. December 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-86091-922-3 (ISBN)
Description
Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated for some time by approaches which emphasise how meanings are produced in films, and how this process both hinges on sexual difference and privileges the masculine. It has been suggested, for example, that the fascination and pleasure of cinema for the spectator lies in the appeal of this highly visual medium to voyeurism, an essentially male or 'masculine' form of looking.
How then to account for the fact that women enjoy watching films, and indeed that women have traditionally formed the majority in cinema audiences? Can there be such a thing as a female or feminine look in cinema? Does television organise looking in terms of sexual difference? And are female spectators all alike: what is the significance of differences between women - differences of class of race, of generation, for example?
The essays in this new collection have been written by feminist film-makers and theorists on both sides of the Atlantic. Together they provide a 'state-of-the-art' picture of feminist film criticism in the 1980s, perceptive readings of individual films and TV programmes, and insights from women in the business of making films today.
Contributors: Linda Williams, Jeanne Allen, Michelle Citron, Christine Gledhill, Jacqueline Bobo, Jackie Byers, E. Ann Kaplan, Allie Sharon Larkin and Teresa de Lauretis.
How then to account for the fact that women enjoy watching films, and indeed that women have traditionally formed the majority in cinema audiences? Can there be such a thing as a female or feminine look in cinema? Does television organise looking in terms of sexual difference? And are female spectators all alike: what is the significance of differences between women - differences of class of race, of generation, for example?
The essays in this new collection have been written by feminist film-makers and theorists on both sides of the Atlantic. Together they provide a 'state-of-the-art' picture of feminist film criticism in the 1980s, perceptive readings of individual films and TV programmes, and insights from women in the business of making films today.
Contributors: Linda Williams, Jeanne Allen, Michelle Citron, Christine Gledhill, Jacqueline Bobo, Jackie Byers, E. Ann Kaplan, Allie Sharon Larkin and Teresa de Lauretis.
Reviews / Votes
The nine pieces in Female Spectators are strong and compelling ... an excellent and timely collection. * FEMINIST COLLECTIONS *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86091-922-3 (9780860919223)
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