Synopses & Reviews
This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception.
About the Author
CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reading the Feminine with Irigaray
Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation
Practicing the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception
Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin
Screening Parler femme: Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless
Orlando and the Maze of Gender
Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano
Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries
Filmography
Bibliography
Index